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SOPHOCLES’
KING OEDIPUS
A VERSION FOR THE MODERN STAGE
BY
W. B. YEATS
“One does not expect to see an audience, drawn from all ranks of life, crowding a Theatre beyond its capacity and becoming awed into spellbound, breathless attention by a tragedy of Sophocles. Yet that is exactly what happened at the Abbey Theatre. . . . It was an event hitherto unequalled in the history of the Abbey, and when the chorus, standing before the closed curtain, spoke the concluding line, ‘Call no man happy while he lives,’ there followed a scene of enthusiasm surpassing all similar scenes with which the career of the Theatre is dotted. It was a spontaneous tribute such as almost beggared belief.”
From The New Tork Times
of 26th December 1926.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1928
