The title page declares:
Seneca’s
Oedipus
Adapted by Ted Hughes
Introduction by Peter Brook
Illustrated by Reginald Pollack
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
Garden City, New York 1972
The next page notes:
Note: Seneca’s Oedipus is the sole property of the author and is fully protected by copyright. … All rights, including professional, amateur, stock, radio and television broadcasting, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public readings, and the rights of translation in [sic] foreign languages are reserved. All inquiries should be addressed to the author’s agent: Olwyn Hughes….
This conception of authorship isn’t romantic; it’s horrible and fearful. It’s a worse curse than Merwin’s. Hell, if I foolishly believed I would generate some pity, I would stick my head into a heating oven.