Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Antigone
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| Other authors / contributors: | Rayor, Diane J.
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| ISBN: | 9781139077521
113907752X
9780511921230
0511921233
9780521119283
0521119286
9780521134781
0521134781
1107213088
9781107213081
1139063049
9781139063043
9786613110893
6613110892
1139075268
9781139075268
1139079816
9781139079815
1139069497
9781139069496
1139082086
9781139082082
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes an essay by director Karen Libman. Antigone begins after Oedipus and Jocasta's sons have killed each other in battle over the kingship. The new king, Kreon, decrees that the brother who attacked with a foreign army remain unburied and promises death to anyone who defies him. The play centers on Antigone's refusal to obey Kreon's law and Kreon's refusal to allow her brother's burial. Each acts on principle colored by gender, personality and family history. Antigone poses a conflict between passionate characters whose extreme stances leave no room for compromise. The highly charged struggle between the individual and the state has powerful implications for ethical and political situations today.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sophocles. Antigone. English. Sophocles' Antigone. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011 9780521119283
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