Oedipus

This play was an all around circle of tragedies. It started off with a little infant baby who got blessed with a curse to kill his father when he got older. Greeks loved drama and Oedipus was filled with drama.
It was harder in the past to portray plays with meaning and sentimental values because the audience wouldn't be able to see facial expressions or small movements that have enormous meanings. After Line 1655 when Oedipus reaches toward Creon and Creon pulls away, if the movement was made big enough no one would ever know that Creon pulled away and didn't want to be touched. Creon is technically Oedipus' uncle not his brother in law.
Oedipus sounds like a crazed mad man. One minute he wants to leave his children so they have a happy, cheerful life but when Creon tells him that he has to go he doesn't want to leave and puts a big scene screaming " No. No. NO!"
Then the chorus comes in calmly and says to the audience no man is happy till they are dead and without pain.
I thought it was interesting the part in which the chorus played in the play. You would think the "background" characters would have little parts. They may have the least to say but may have the most meaning in what they say.