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    Antigone (/ænˈtɪɡəni/ ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at...
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    same name. The story of Antigone was addressed by the fifth-century BC Greek playwright Sophocles in his Theban plays: Antigone and her sister Ismene are...
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  • Antigone is a 2019 Canadian drama film directed by Sophie Deraspe. An adaptation of the ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles, the film transposes the...
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    was sometimes defeated by Sophocles; Euripides won four. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and Antigone: they are generally known...
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  • Jean Anouilh's play Antigone (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tiɡɔn]) is a tragedy inspired by the play of the same name by Sophocles. Antigone was first performed...
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  • Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy...
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    From 1922 Honegger began thinking about adapting the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles as his first opera. He wrote that the plot is "not the standard...
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  • Antigone (Greek: Aντιγόνη, Antigone) is a 1961 Greek film adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It stars Irene Papas in the title...
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  • The Island (play) (category Modern adaptations of Antigone (Sophocles play))
    their cell for a performance of Sophocles' Antigone in front of the other prisoners. One takes the part of Antigone, who defies the laws of the state...
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  • polo player Antigone, pseudonym of Antonio Papasso (1932–2014), Italian painter and engraver Antigone (Sophocles play), by Sophocles Antigone (Mendelssohn)...
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  • Antígona González (category Modern adaptations of Antigone (Sophocles play))
    Sophocles’ original Antigone, Uribe includes excerpts from Antígona Furiosa, an Argentinian pastiche from the 1980s that uses the story of Antigone to...
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    Oedipus at Colonus (category Plays by Sophocles)
    David; Lattimore, Richmond, eds. (1991). Sophocles. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago...
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    Oedipus Rex (category Plays by Sophocles)
    almost directly from David Grene's introduction to Sophocles I, University of Chicago Press, 1954.) Sophocles uses dramatic irony to present the downfall of...
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  • The Burial at Thebes (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
    version of Sophocles' Antigone is a play by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century BC tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It is also...
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    Oedipus Rex 1316 Pindar, Second Olympian Ode Sophocles. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. 2nd ed. Grene, David and Lattimore, Richard...
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  • Greek tragedy, Antigone by Sophocles, which is a classic tale of how unbending hubris destroys all who fall prey to its spell. Another Antigone is the same...
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    Antigone, Op. 55, MWV M 12, is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged...
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    Antigonae (redirect from Antigone (opera))
    the same name by Sophocles. However, it functions as an opera. The opera is a line-by-line setting of the German translation of Sophocles' play by Friedrich...
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    Ismene (section In Sophocles)
    Antigone, Eteocles, and Polynices. She appears in several tragic plays of Sophocles: at the end of Oedipus Rex, in Oedipus at Colonus and in Antigone...
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  • La Thébaïde (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
    inexperienced, drew particularly from the Antigone of Sophocles, the Phoenician Women of Euripides, but especially the Antigone of Jean Rotrou and the tragedies...
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    tells a very different version of this same basic story from Sophocles. Electra (Sophocles play) The story was also told at the end of the lost epic Nostoi...
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    Georg Katzer and librettist Gerhard Müller. They based it on Antigone, the play by Sophocles. Conceived in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1988...
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    to Aristophanes of Byzantium, the plot was similar to that of Sophocles' play Antigone, with three differences. The date of the play is uncertain, but...
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  • I cannibali (category Modern adaptations of Antigone (Sophocles play))
    Clémenti, and Tomas Milian. It is a modernized retelling of the Greek tragedy Antigone, set in contemporary Milan and drawing upon socio-political themes and...
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  • Home Fire (novel) (category Modern adaptations of Antigone (Sophocles play))
    (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie. It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the Pasha family:...
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    Ajax (play) (redirect from Sophocles' Ajax)
    Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation. By Sophocles. New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0062020345. Buckley, Theodore Alois. 1849. The Tragedies of Sophocles, in English...
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  • "What's done is done" (Shakespeare's Macbeth) "Tomorrow is tomorrow" (Antigone (Sophocles)) "A rose is a rose is a rose" (Gertrude Stein) "A man's a man for...
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    Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti 54. Sindbad the Sailor - Anon 55. Antigone - Sophocles 56. The Life of a Stupid Man - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 57. How Much Land...
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  • Sphinx. In Sophocles' Antigone, Haemon was the fiancé of Antigone and killed himself after her death. In Euripides' Antigone, Haemon marries Antigone and they...
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  • Welcome to Thebes (category Plays based on Antigone (Sophocles play))
    fortunes there. The play draws its plot on Polynices' burial from Sophocles' Antigone, though it substitutes Creon's widow Eurydice for Creon. Theseus...
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