Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King

Editions

Translations

  • Thomas Francklin, 1759 – verse
  • Edward H. Plumptre, 1865 – verse (full text at Wikisource, rev. edition of 1878)
  • Richard C. Jebb, 1904 – prose (full text at Wikisource)
  • Sir George Young, 1906 – verse
  • Gilbert Murray, 1911 – verse
  • Francis Storr, 1912 – verse: full text
  • W. B. Yeats, 1928 – mixed prose and verse (full text, with music, at Wikisource)
  • David Grene, 1942 (revised ed. 1991) – verse
  • E. F. Watling, 1947 – verse
  • Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, 1949 – verse
  • F. L. Lucas, 1954 — verse
  • Theodore Howard Banks, 1956 – verse
  • Albert Cook, 1957 – verse
  • Bernard Knox, 1959 – prose
  • H. D. F. Kitto, 1962 – verse
  • Luci Berkowitz and Theodore F. Brunner, 1970 – prose
  • Anthony Burgess, 1972 – prose and verse
  • Stephen Berg and Diskin Clay, 1978 – verse
  • Robert Bagg, 1982 (revised ed. 2004) – verse
  • Robert Fagles, 1984, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus. Penguin classics. ISBN 9781101042694
  • Don Taylor, 1986 – prose
  • Nick Bartel, 1999 – verse: abridged text
  • Kenneth McLeish, 2001 – verse
  • Ian Johnston, 2004 – verse: full text Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine
  • George Theodoridis, 2005 – prose: full text
  • J. E. Thomas, 2006 – verse
  • Ian C. Johnston, 2007 – verse: full text
  • David Mulroy, 2011 – verse
  • Rachel Pollack and David Vine, 2011 – verse
  • Frank Nisetich, 2016 – verse
  • David Kovacs, 2020 – verse. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0198854838
  • Bryan Doerries, 2021 – verse. ISBN 0593314956 [45]

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