Lastly, the desire for the scapegoat accelerates in times of plague. In Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (c.429 BCE), Thebes is beset by plague, and the hunt is on for the social transgression that is ...

The English writer and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a new version of the seminal Sophocles drama about a king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mother, will come to ...