Looking at Antigone

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-01711-5 (ISBN)

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Antigone is one of the most influential and thought-provoking of all Greek tragedies. Set in a newly victorious society, where possibilities seem boundless and mankind can overcome all boundaries except death, the action is focussed through the prism of Creon, a remarkable anti-hero – a politician who, in crisis, makes a reckless decision, whose pride (or insecurity) prevents him from backing down until it is too late, and who thereby ends up losing everything. Not just the story of a girl who confronts the state, Antigone is an exploration of inherent human conflicts – between men and women, young and old, power and powerlessness, civil law and the ‘unwritten laws’ of nature. Lauded in Antiquity, it has influenced drama and philosophy throughout history into the modern age.

With an introduction discussing the nature of the community for which Antigone was written, this collection of essays by 12 leading academics from across the world draws together many of the themes explored in Antigone, from Sophocles’ use of mythology, his contemporaries’ reactions and later reception, to questions of religion and ritual, family life and incest, ecology and the environment. The essays are accompanied by David Stuttard’s performer-friendly, accurate and easily accessible English translation.

David Stuttard has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited three 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Bacchae (2016), Medea (2014) and Lysistrata (2010).

Introduction: Antigone, A Play for Today? (David Stuttard)

1. Antigone, Right or Wrong? (Alex Garvie, University of Glasgow, UK)

2. Antigone as Others See Her (Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK)

3. Assessing the Character of Creon (Brad Levett, Memorial University, Canada)

4. Images and Effects of Incest in Sophocles’ Antigone (Sophie Mills, University of North Carolina at Ashville, USA)

5. The Two Sisters (Hanna Roisman, Colby College, USA)

6. Antigone’s Change of Heart (Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA)

7. Antigone and the Rights of the Earth (Rush Rehm, Stanford University, USA)

8. Revealing Divinity in Sophocles' Antigone (Stephen Esposito, Boston University, USA)

9. Religion in Antigone (Robert Garland, Colgate University, USA)

10. Euripides' Response to Sophocles' Antigone (Ioanna Karamanou, University of the Peloponnese, Greece)

11. The Voices of Antigone (Helene Foley, Columbia University, USA)

12. Antigone Enters the Modern World (Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham, UK)

Sophocles' Antigone, translated by David Stuttard

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Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-01711-6 / 1350017116
ISBN-13	978-1-350-01711-5 / 9781350017115
Zustand	Neuware