Sophocles

She includes here Jocasta's Death from her ongoing Sophocles translation: a passage which she says is very accurate in its rendering of the original.

The story borrows from that of Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex. Its full title, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Life and Death of a Man of Character, highlights the way that this novel focuses...

The designer was Carson's husband, Robert Currie (who also designed her next publication, Antigonick, an unorthodox version of Sophocles ' Antigone). Pages have the appearance of collages. Black-and-white photographs are presented without caption...

CL published, with her name, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, an edition of twenty-five translated plays by Euripides and Sophocles (which had appeared in French in 1759).

Following LL 's Medea, her Thebans (adapted from Sophocles and Euripides and to a lesser extent from Æschylus ) opened at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival .

SH 's version of the Antigone of Sophocles opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Its title, The Burial at Thebes, echoes in structure his earlier translation The Cure at Troy.

TW 's Our Ajax, a play about modern warfare freely adapted from Sophocles ' Ajax, opened at Southwark Playhouse . It was published the same month.

In 2012 AC took the chorus part in a staged reading of her own Antigonick (adapted from Sophocles ), 2012. A few years later she took the title role with great fierceness in Tacita Dean...

Despite the universal opinion that the sequel was decidedly weaker than the original, it nevertheless did well enough to go into several editions. The Saturday Review noted that it was a book which, even if...

According to Linden Peach , intertextuality is a prominent feature of this novel, which is a rewriting of the Oedipus story most famously handled by Sophocles . Like Oedipus, Desiderio is instructed by his father...

In the opening scene of Darkness and Day, two old friends discuss the approaching death of one of them. The plot is a version of the Oedipus story: Bridget Lovat kills her mother and...

Padel's essay centres on Steiner's The Death of Tragedy and his monograph on the Antigone of Sophocles , but it ranges widely. She seeks to grasp here Steiner's opinions and the way they changed over...

The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan , via Charles Baudelaire , T. S. Eliot

INH based her Orestes on the ancient Greek legend already dramatised by Sophocles and Euripides . Her play begins when Orestes is very young. He vows to have vengeance on both his mother, Clytemnestra, and...

Like most of AS 's work, this novel is playfully self-reflexive in its adherence to typical story structure. In a formulaic breakdown of essential narrative parts, The Accidental has a prescribed Beginning, Middle...