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Books about Sophocles:

• Dancing with Philoctetes: Reflections on Pain and Remembrance; With a New Adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes (pub. by Tangent, an imprint of Punctum Books, c2023), by Abigail Akavia, contrib. by Sophocles
  • PDF at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commetary at JSTOR
• Essays on Greek Literature (London: Macmillan, 1909), by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• Dancing with Philoctetes: Reflections on Pain and Remembrance; With a New Adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes (pub. by Tangent, an imprint of Punctum Books, c2023), by Abigail Akavia, contrib. by Sophocles
  • PDF at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commetary at JSTOR

• Musical Design in Sophoclean Theater (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c1996), by William C. Scott (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Die Dramatische Technik des Sophokles (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1917), by Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, ed. by Ernst Kapp, contrib. by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Oedipus Trilogy, by Sophocles, trans. by Francis Storr (Gutenberg text)

• The Fragments of Sophocles (in Greek with English notes; 3 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1917), by Sophocles, ed. by A. C. Pearson, contrib. by R. C. Jebb and Walter George Headlam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Die Spürhunde des Sophokles (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913), by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• An Account of the Harvard Greek Play (Boston: J. R. Osgodd and Co., 1882), by Henry Norman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dancing with Philoctetes: Reflections on Pain and Remembrance; With a New Adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes (pub. by Tangent, an imprint of Punctum Books, c2023), by Abigail Akavia, contrib. by Sophocles
  • PDF at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commetary at JSTOR

Books by Sophocles:

• Sophocles: Ajax, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)
• Sophocles: Ajax, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Sophocles: The Ajax of Sophocles (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1919), trans. by R. C. Trevelyan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; IS access only
• Sophocles: Antigone (multiple editions)
• Sophocles: Antigone, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Sophocles: Antigone, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML with commentary in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• Sophocles: The Antigone (this translation c1941), trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sophocles: Antigone, trans. by E. H. Plumptre (HTML at Bartleby)
• Sophocles: The Antigone of Sophocles: The Greek Text Revised and Corrected, With an Introduction, and Critical and Explanatory Notes, For the Use of Academies and Colleges (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), ed. by M. J. Smead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sophocles: The Antigone of Sophocles; With Brief English Notes for School Use (main text in Greek; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1899), ed. by F. A. Paley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sophocles: The Antigone of Sophocles, With Notes For the Use of Colleges in the United States (in Greek, with English notes; Cambridge, MA: J. Munroe and Co., 1835), ed. by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sophocles: The Antigone of Sophokles (in Greek, with English commentary; London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), ed. by M. A. Bayfield
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sophocles, contrib.: Dancing with Philoctetes: Reflections on Pain and Remembrance; With a New Adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes (pub. by Tangent, an imprint of Punctum Books, c2023), by Abigail Akavia
  • PDF at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commetary at JSTOR
• Sophocles: Electra, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Sophocles: The Fragments of Sophocles (in Greek with English notes; 3 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1917), ed. by A. C. Pearson, contrib. by R. C. Jebb and Walter George Headlam
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)
• Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (this translation c1948), trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (see Oedipus the King)
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, trans. by Ian Johnston (Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications)
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, trans. by E. H. Plumptre (HTML at Bartleby)
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, trans. by Francis Storr (HTML at Virginia)
• Sophocles: The Oedipus Trilogy, trans. by Francis Storr (Gutenberg text)
• Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)
• Sophocles: Philoctetes, trans. by Thomas Francklin (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Sophocles: Philoctetes, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML at Perseus)
• Sophocles: Philoctetes, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• Sophocles: Philoktetes, trans. by Gregory McNamee (Gutenberg text)
• Sophocles, contrib.: Poetae Scenici Graeci: Accedunt Perditarum Fabularum Fragmenta (in Greek, with Latin commentary: London: Black, Young and Young, 1830), ed. by Wilhelm Dindorf, also contrib. by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Aristophanes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sophocles, contrib.: Specimens of Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus and Sophocles, ed. by Goldwin Smith, also contrib. by Aeschylus (Gutenberg text)
• Sophocles: The Trachiniae, trans. by R. C. Jebb (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Sophocles: The Wife of Heracles (this translation c1947), trans. by Gilbert Murray (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)