Oedipus Rex: Reflection

I loved Oedipus Rex. I know, crazy right? Well, here is why. At the beginning of this unit I was ultimately discouraged when I realized that we were going to be reading a play. Not that I don't like them, but yeah, I dont really like them. It was not untill after we learned the whole back story to Oedipus that I became suddenly became interested. I love the whole world of Greek and Roman mythology and this play seemed like one that I could get in to. Turns out I was right. I had no problem reading the play as it was engaging and interesting to me. The many occurences of irony held an air of suspense over the entire story and made me want to read on. I think that the view I had of this play will reflect on the many future plays that I am bound to read. I will try to approach our upcoming and seemigly daunting unit of Hamlet with a mindset of enthusiasm for what I am going to read. I hope to learn a lot from my reading in the next few weeks as I try to tackle yet another Shakespeare work. To be or not to be?