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The Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse - By Thomas May (Hardcover)
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The Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse - By Thomas May (Hardcover)
Series: The Malone Society
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Thomas May's The Tragedy of Antigone (1631), edited by Matteo
Pangallo, is the first English treatment of the story made famous
by Sophocles. This edition contains a facsimile of the copy held at
the Beinecke Library of Yale University, making the play
commercially available for the first time since its original
publication. The extensive introduction discusses, among other
things, the ownership history of existing copies and their marginal
annotations, and of the play's topical political implications in
the light of May's wavering between royalist and republican
sympathies. Writing during the contentious early years of Charles
I's reign, May used Sophocles' Antigone to explore the problems of
just rule and justified rebellion. He also went beyond the scope of
the original, adding content from a wide range of other classical
and contemporary plays, poems and other sources, including
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. This volume will be
essential reading for advanced students, researchers and teachers
of early English drama and seventeenth-century political history.
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