# Electra: a tragedy. Translated from Sophocles, with notes. By Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `electra_1714`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald (tr. Sophocles)  
**Edition / date:** FIRST edition year, two distinct 1714 printings obtained: copy A 'printed for Bernard Lintott at the Cross-Keys' with Theobald's name and notes; copy B ('Electra, a tragedy. Translated from the Greek of Sophocles') is a separate 1714 printing 'printed for J. Watts, and sold by W. Lewis', shorter and without the notes.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714
  - catalogue title: Electra: a tragedy. Translated from Sophocles, with notes. By Mr. Theobald.  1714
  - date field: 1714; images/frames: 95; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313515-70', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714_djvu.txt`
  - note: copy A, 95 frames; reel IA40313515-70
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714_0` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714_0
  - catalogue title: Electra, a tragedy. Translated from the Greek of Sophocles.  1714
  - date field: 1714; images/frames: 83; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313517-47', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_electra-a-tragedy-tran_sophocles_1714_0_djvu.txt`
  - note: copy B, 83 frames; reel IA40313517-47

## Cleaned text(s)
- `electra_1714_copyA.clean.txt` - with notes; 18,635 words; 95% of text lines pass a dictionary check
- `electra_1714_copyB.clean.txt` - without notes; 14,126 words; 96% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
Both complete.

## OCR quality / notes
Cleaning: IA djvu.txt was normalised (ſ->s), microfilm target frames and junk lines trimmed, page numbers/signatures/running heads dropped, end-of-line hyphenation joined, and a CONSERVATIVE long-s correction applied (words with 'f' that are not in a modern frequency list are replaced by their 's' variant when that variant is common; a short override list covers so/she/sir/see/such/some...). Ambiguous real words (fame/same, fell/sell, fold/sold, found/sound, foul/soul, fit/sit ...) were left unchanged. Statistics of every change are in the `*.cleanstats.json` beside each cleaned file. Expect residual OCR noise; the '% of lines pass a dictionary check' figure above is a rough legibility score (modern-English word list; 18th-c. spellings count against it).
Later acting editions (1777 Bell, 1780) also exist on archive.org: electratragedy00soph, electratragedyas00sophuoft, bim_..._sophocles_1777, bim_..._sophocles_1780 (not downloaded).