Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among them the famed Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. In Antigone, he reveals the fate that befalls the children of Oedipus.
Antigone, fille d'Œdipe et sœur de Polynice, décide pourtant de braver l'interdit et d'enterrer son frère. Elle oppose ainsi la loi des dieux et du cœur à celle des hommes et de la cité, et ce faisant s'expose à la peine de mort..."
Après avoir suivi son père Œdipe, le roi aveugle, jusqu'au bout de son parcours, Antigone rentre à Thèbes pour tenter d'apaiser la colère de ses deux frères qui se disputent le trône.
A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNish As the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of Grecian tragedy.
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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 is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices.
Building on Hölderlin, Rosenfield brings out what is 'modern' in classical Greek drama: the conscience of permanent unsettling shifts in human actions, intentions and feelings, the gripping, unspoken secrets hidden in the ironies of the ...
This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present.
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Antigone
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Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's law overruling the laws of the gods.
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The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.
Antigone
The second story in the Oedipus Trilogy, "Antigone", examines the conflict between public duty and personal loyalty.
Full Length, Tragedy Characters: 7 male, 4 female Various sets This incisive translation of the classic drama is by the noted British playwright, translator and director.