Sophocles

Standard Name: Sophocles

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Textual Production Anne Dacier
Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
In A Note from the PlaymakerLL wrote that she was squirming to see herself listed in the festival programme as author of this play. I do know, she continued, that Sophocles wrote the Theban...
Textual Production Ruth Fainlight
Ruth Fainlight has recently completed, in collaboration with classics professor Robert J. Littman , a new translation from Sophocles : The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, published in early 2009...
Textual Production Louise Page
In 1992 an educational grant from the Royal Shakespeare Company funded LP 's adaptation, for children, of Antigone by Sophocles , entitled Royal Blood Bath 3.
Eisen, Kurt. “Louise Page”. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. A Research and Production Source Book, edited by William W. Demastes, Greenwood Press, pp. 291-00.
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Textual Production André Gide
The play was published by Gallimard in Paris the same year. Though it remembers the handling of this story by Sophocles , it is not a translation.
Textual Production Ezra Pound
His later translations come from Confucius again, 1954, and Sophocles , 1956.
Textual Production Kamila Shamsie
KS published Home Fire, a modern-day reimagining in novel form of Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone played out in modern-day London.
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Textual Production Ali Smith
AS published her first (and thus far only) book for children in the Pushkin PressSave the Story series of classic literature adapted for young readers, a retelling of Sophocles ' Antigone from the perspective...
Textual Production Seamus Heaney
SH 's first play, a rendering from ancient Greek of Philoctetes by Sophocles , titled The Cure at Troy, reached print after being produced and taken on tour by the theatre company Field Day
Textual Production Mary Stewart
MS wrote My Brother Michael after she had visited Greece two or three times, and was wildly in love with it. She longed to set a book there, to re-create certain places for myself and...
Textual Production Maya Angelou
Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia, 1972, was the first by an African-American woman to be filmed. She worked with others on adapting her first volume of autobiography for television under its original title, and she...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's ambitious, seven-hour translation and adaptation from Sophocles , The Thebans, opened at Stratford.
This was a decade before Liz Lochhead 's, or rather Theatre Babel 's, Thebans.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Textual Production Anne Carson
AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...
Textual Features Eliza Lynn Linton
As before, Eliza Lynn had done plenty of research for this novel, and she passes it on, in lengthy descriptions of the places, costume, and ceremonies of ancient Athens. She employs specialised diction (...

Timeline

March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...

Writing climate item

March 1824-May 1829

Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.

Texts

Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern, 2003.