How does Oedipus’ quest for the identity of Laius’ murderer structure Oedipus Tyrannus?
A quest – for the holy grail, a means to return home, a lost love – often provides the major temporal and structural principles of a given literary work. How does Oedipus’ quest for the identity of Laius’ murderer structure Oedipus Tyrannus? Is literary genre an important factor?