"King Oedipus", by Sophocles.

When Sophocles wrote, King Oedipus, he was writing a form of play called a crisis drama, or sometimes called a drama of catastrophe. Little did he know that upon writing this story he was actually building on something that Freud would base a theory on and that professionals would still use in the modern world today, in the 21st century. This form of history has truly played its part through time, and Sophocles was a …

…requests that he be walked from the palace to become a blind beggar. Freud defined the Oedipus complex as a crisis of psychosexual development in which children must give up their sexual attraction for their opposite-sex parent. Now, this was and is still today used to treat psychological patients. I believe that if this isn't a most critical part of history and how theatre has played a part in...then I don't know what is.