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The story of Antigone has been a popular subject for books, plays, and other works, including: Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles (497 BC – 406 BC), the most famous adaptation; Antigone, a play by Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) which is now lost except for some fragments; Antigone (1631), [9] a play by Thomas May
Antigone inspired the 1967 Spanish-language novel La tumba de Antígona (English title: Antigone's Tomb) by María Zambrano. Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez 's 1968 play La Pasión según Antígona Pérez sets Sophocles' play in a contemporary world where Creon is the dictator of a fictional Latin American nation, and Antígona and her 'brothers' are dissident freedom fighters.
Oct 19, 2024 · Antigone, in Greek legend, the daughter born of the unwittingly incestuous union of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. After her father blinded himself upon discovering that Jocasta was his mother and that, also unwittingly, he had slain his father, Antigone and her sister Ismene served as Oedipus’ guides, following him from Thebes into exile until his death near Athens.
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Apr 5, 2018 · Antigone was the third play in the Oedipus trilogy written by the great Greek playwright Sophocles (c. 496 - c. 406 BCE). Produced around 441 BCE and receiving first prize at the Dionysia festival, the tragedy was actually written long before both Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. In the play, Antigone returns to Thebes after the death ...
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Apr 21, 2020 · Historical Background on Sophocles’s ANTIGONE. Considered to be Sophocles’s most political play in the Oedipus Trilogy, Antigone was actually written before the other plays, though it takes place last chronologically. First performed around 441 – 442 B.C.E., it still enraptures audiences today with its exploration of pertinent themes like ...
Antigone By Sophocles Written 442 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb. Dramatis Personae daughters of Oedipus: ANTIGONE ISMENE CREON, King of Thebes EURYDICE, his wife HAEMON, his son TEIRESIAS, the blind prophet GUARD, set to watch the corpse of Polyneices FIRST MESSENGER SECOND MESSENGER, from the house CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS Scene The same as in ...
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Before the curtain is raised we hear the sounds of battle. Fade out. Pause. Sounds of a bright morning. Cheery birds. Continues until just before Antigone speaks. Curtain is raised. Dawn breaking. We are at the front of the palace of Thebes. Its three great gates are a little off centre, towards Stage Right.
