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Abstract
Al-Saddany,Rasha A. Mohammed. Modern Variations of the Classical Myth of Oedipus as Exemplified in T.S.Eliot’s The Elder Statesman, Tawfik Al-Hakim’s Oedipus the King and W.B.Yeats’ Sophocles’Oedipus the King and Sophocles’Oedipus at Colonus. An M. A. Thesis(drama),Women Collage. Ain Shams University, 2006.
This Thesis proposes a comparative study of T.S.Eliot’s The Elder
Statesman,Tawfik Al-Hakim’s Oedipus the King and W.B.Yeats’Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus as modern versions of the myth of Oedipus. The comparison has been
conducted in terms of themes, characterization, structure, techniques,
and language.
The thesis concludes that Yeats is the only dramatist who keeps the
myth’s tragic vision, the traits of the mythical analogues of his characters, and the Greek structure with its well-known techniques.
The plays of Eliot and Al-Hakim have a modern structure, but they employ
different techniques. Unlike Eliot’s verse play and Al-Hakim’s prose
play, Yeats’ plays are written in prose with the choral odes in verse. The
plays of the three playwrights are simple and poetic, but Eliot’s and
Yeats’ versions have instances of inflation and the use of clichés.