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This volume assembles the complete textual history of W. B. Yeats’s translations of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. It includes photographs and transcriptions of Yeats’s three major revised typescripts, the verse choruses (except those in The Tower), and an appendix of additional proofs and manuscripts. The edition is prefaced by a census of manuscripts, followed by an introduction that traces Yeats’s development of the plays and a chronology of composition. Illustrative notes on the music composed by Lennox Robinson for the original Abbey production are also provided.
First publish date: 1819
Genre: Drama & Plays/Drama
Authors: Sophocles
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