John Gielgud as Tieresias in "Oedipus the King"

Time for a link of quality: one of the really, really great scenes of Western Literature.   King Oedipus confronts the terrible truth about who he is, embodied in the person of the blind prophet Tieresias, played beautifully here by an 81 year old John Gielgud.

 From a 1985 BBC production of Sophocles with Michael Pennington in the title role. You can watch the whole play in 12 parts here:

 part 1. http://youtu.be/WS9KJ_bAJLE
 part 2. http://youtu.be/rWK663cfyR8
 part 3. http://youtu.be/_ynLrKcqKzI
 part 4. http://youtu.be/S5laTMLhsZI
 part 5. http://youtu.be/N7mNo_uNzDU
 part 6. http://youtu.be/GkVV8j4-xOs
 part 7. http://youtu.be/R7caIrzZuMw
 part 8. http://youtu.be/OaGRj9mUEOc
 part 9. http://youtu.be/vB9ELMzskPA
 part 10. http://youtu.be/1oBS5g-rohc
 part 11. http://youtu.be/JRcQrWfBi7g
 part 12. http://youtu.be/k0A5PRWtnJ8

This post isn't quite finished.  I'll be back to fill in some information, fix the hiccup in the playback,  and make the links more linky.