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The Duality of Oedipus in Yeats

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Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus - Manuscript Materials by W.B Yeats, Edited by Jared Curtis (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008), liii + 584 pp.

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Arkins, B. The Duality of Oedipus in Yeats. Int class trad 18, 437–448 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-011-0268-x

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