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Sophocles: Antigone (Hardcover)
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Sophocles: Antigone (Hardcover)
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
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"Antigone" is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide
range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions all over
the world. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its ancient
mythical background, its original circumstances of performance, its
relation to the culture and thought of contemporary Athens, and the
rich and complicated history of its reception. But its main aim is
to encourage readers to engage with the text at first hand and to
appreciate the inexhaustible richness that makes this play in
particular so hard to pin down, so enduringly thought-provoking,
and hence so rewarding to study. Though Creon's actions prove
disastrous and Antigone's are vindicated, the "Antigone" (it is
argued) is no simple study in the excesses of tyranny or the
virtues of heroic resistance, but a more complex and nuanced
exploration of conflicting views of right and wrong and of the
conditions that constrain human beings' efforts to control their
own destinies and secure their own happiness.The book's chapters
consider the extent of the original audience's acquaintance with
earlier versions of the legends of Antigone's family, the structure
of the plot as it unfolds in theatrical performance, the
presentation of the characters and the motivations that drive them,
the major political, social, and ethical themes that the play
raises, and the resonance of those themes in the ways that the play
has been interpreted, adapted, performed, and appropriated in later
periods.
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