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Excerpt from ʻDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,ʻ by Dylan Tho-
mas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright © 1952 by Dylan Tho-
mas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. In
Walford Davies and Ralph Maud, eds., Collected Poems,1934-1953 (Lon-
don : Dent, 1993). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sophocles.
[Selections. English. 2003]
Theban plays / Sophocles; translated with introduction and
notes, by Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Antigone-Oedipus tyrannus-Oedipus at Colonus.
ISBN 0-87220-586-X (cloth) - ISBN 0-87220-585-1 (paper)
1. Sophocles-Translations into English. 2. Antigone (Greek
mythology)-Drama. 3. Oedipus (Greek mythology)-Drama.
4. Thebes (Greece)-Drama. I. Meineck, Peter, 1967-.
II. Woodruff, Paul, 1943-. III. Title.
PA4414.A2 M45 2003
882'.01-dc21
2002038790
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American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of
Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIZ39.48-1984.

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