Acclaimed contemporary playwright Roy Williams's contemporary re-working of Sophocles' classic tale of personal loyalty and truth.
Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man's—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each of these volumes includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays.
In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens.
Examines Antigone_s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature. Despite a venerable tradition of thinkers having declared the death of tragedy, Antigone lives on.
Bonnie Honig's rereading of it therefore involves intervening in a host of literatures and unsettling many of their governing assumptions.
A Play in 5 Parts Caridad Svich, Chiori Miyagawa, Sabrina Peck, Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman. everyone. If it sounds like a Texas soap opera or a Greek tragedy, it is because it is. Imagine this is a theatrical relay through time and ...
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This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history.
The Antigone