# Oedipus, King of Thebes: a tragedy. Translated from Sophocles, with notes. By Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `oedipus_1715`  
**Priority:** 2  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald (tr. Sophocles)  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for Bernard Lintott, 1715. FIRST edition.

## Sources
- **archive.org** `bim_eighteenth-century_oedipus-king-of-thebes_sophocles_1715` - https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_oedipus-king-of-thebes_sophocles_1715
  - catalogue title: Oedipus, King of Thebes: a tragedy. Translated from Sophocles, with notes. By Mr. Theobald.  1715
  - date field: 1715; images/frames: 95; OCR engine: tesseract 5.3.0-3-g9920
  - digitised from / contributor: ['IA40313517-21', 'microfilm']
  - raw file(s) saved here (exactly as downloaded): `bim_eighteenth-century_oedipus-king-of-thebes_sophocles_1715_djvu.txt`
  - note: reel IA40313517-21; 95 frames

## Cleaned text(s)
- `oedipus_1715.clean.txt` - full volume with Theobald's notes; 19,376 words; 93% of text lines pass a dictionary check

## Completeness
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).