1. Oedipus
Sophocles turns the chorus, simply serving as a nameless onlooker and commentator in other Greek tragedies, into a collective "actor" within the drama itself. The dramatic irony occurs when the reader or audience knows something important that a character in a story or drama does not know. ... And when Oedipus says, "whoever killed king Laius might who knows? ... The fundamental irony in Oedipus Rex that stems from the fact which the audience knows king Oedipus's true identity, while he is unaware of it. ... The play contributed to the development of modern drama because every line of...
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