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Transgression in the Eyes of Playwrights from Different Eras
Summary: Both Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle and Shakespeare's "Richard III" successfully illustrated non-changing themes from their respective time periods, containing similarly malicious characters and protagonists that illustrate the two playwrights' paralleled sense of what transgression is. Three major connections between the characters and their unruly behavior in both plays are the price that rulers paid for their arrogance and hunger for power, infidelity among women and its consequences, and the karmic effects of murder and injustice.
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