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Sophocles' great tragic play dramatises the clash between family and the city and, through high poetry and deep tragedy, presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict.
Sophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype - the personification of personal integrity and political freedom, and the play has been staged and adapted numerous times over the centuries.
It is published here in Don Taylor's classic translation with commentary and notes by David Bullen. The commentary looks at the original performance conditions that would have shaped the impact of Antigone in 441 BCE; key choices made by the translator; key ideas in the play taken up by philosophers such as Hegel and Butler; and more recent translations and adaptations.
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Contexts (original performance conditions in 441 BCE including the multiple dimensions of the City Dionysia; what is known about Sophocles; the cultural tradition into which Antigone fitted; Athens the city-state in the mid-fifth century BCE)
Translation (transition of Antigone from fifth century BCE performance to the text Don Taylor worked with)
Themes (philosophical ideas in Antigone taken up by philosophers such as Hegel and Butler)
Key moments (key dramatic moments, using the 2012 National Theatre production to investigate these moments)
Characters (Antigone; Creon as civic saviour or ruthless tyrant; Teiresias)
Dramatic devices
Play in performance (with a focus on the 2012 National Theatre production, which used Don Taylor's translation and interviews with practitioners from this production, including director Polly Findlay, dramaturg Ben Power and actors Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker)
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| Published | 09 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 112 |
| ISBN | 9781350510449 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Series | Student Editions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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