An edition of Oedipus at Colonus (1819)

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An edition of Oedipus at Colonus (1819)

Oedipus at Colonus

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"Working from Victorian translations into English and French by classicists R. C. Jebb and Paul Masqueray, Yeats completed Oedipus the King in the fall of 1926 and Oedipus at Colonus a year later. Yeats gave the second play, like the first, directly to the Abbey players, prompting him to revise and hone his texts through many versions to achieve his stated goal of putting the play "into simple speakable prose" that he hoped would be his "contribution to the Abbey Repertory." The play had a successful run in September of 1927 but was not published until 1934." "The edition presents photographs and transcriptions of three revised typescripts that Yeats prepared and extensively revised over a period of eight-and-a-half months and a reading text based on the first publication of the play, which is presented with an apparatus of collations from the many proofs for three different intended publications. Included also are photographs and transcriptions of the verse choruses, except for the two appearing in The Tower (1928), also in this series; an appendix of other typescripts and proofs that invite detailed treatment; and a brief account of the music written for the play by Lennox Robinson, who was also its first director. The texts are prefaced by a census of manuscripts, an introduction discussing Yeats's development of the play,and a chronology of composition."--BOOK JACKET.

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Players Press
Language
English
Pages
40

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Cover of: Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: manuscript materials
2008, Cornell University Press
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Oedipus at Colonus
2005, Oxford University Press
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Oedipus at Colonus
2004, Oxford University Press
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Oedipus at Colonus
2001, Ivan R. Dee
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Oedipus at Colonus
1999, Dover Publications
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Oedipus at Colonus
1998, Players Press
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Oedipus at Colonus
1946, The University Press
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Studio City, CA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
882/.01
Library of Congress
PA4414.O5 J43 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
40 p. ;
Number of pages
40

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL354034M
Internet Archive
oedipusatcolonus00soph
ISBN 10
0887347789
LCCN
98013733
OCLC/WorldCat
38521489
Library Thing
183081
Goodreads
4548911

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January 28, 2012 Edited by Charles Horn merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record.