Oedipus (Voltaire play)

Oedipus
Title page of the second edition
Written by	Voltaire
Date premiered	18 November 1718 (1718-11-18)
Place premiered	Comédie-Française, Paris
Original language	French
Subject	Myth of Oedipus
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Thebes

Oedipus (French: Œdipe) is a tragedy by the French dramatist and philosopher Voltaire that was first performed in 1718.^[1] It was his first play and the first literary work for which he used the pen-name Voltaire (his real name was François-Marie Arouet).