Antigone (Modern Plays) - Softcover

Sophocles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783198109 ISBN 13: 9781783198108

Publisher: Oberon Books, 2015

Synopsis

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say 'No'. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction., Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van Hove first enthralled London audiences with his ground-breaking Roman Tragediesseen at the Barbican in 2009. Drawing on his 'ability to break open texts calcified by tradition' (Guardian), the director now turns to a classic Greek masterpiece.

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Review:

A marvellous new translation by Anne Carson that crackles with canny colloquialism and insight --Arts Desk

You hear Anne Carson's wonderful new translation supple, salty and vivid... And by making you aware of the act of listening, it becomes, in part, about the responsibilities of democracy... the play seems to offer a challenge: what would you do? --Financial Times

It's presented in a version by Anne Carson, the brilliant, prize-winning Canadian poet and rigorous classicist whose creative meditations between the ancient Greek and modern worlds are renowned for their spiky stimulation. --Independent

About the Author:

Anne Carson is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize (twice-awarded), and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany. Anne is currently adapting The Bakkhai for the Almeida. Classic Stage Company has produced three of Carson's translations: Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Sophocles' Electra; and An Oresteia (from Euripides Orestes), in repertory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783198109
• ISBN 13: 9781783198108
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56