Sophocles

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

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

TW 's ambitious, seven-hour translation and adaptation from Sophocles , The Thebans, opened at Stratford.

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...

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...

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...

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...

In an compelling refusal to expurgate the Antigone story for young readers, Smith fully embraces its motifs of death and decay through the voice of the onlooking crow, whose hunger for the remnants of the...

KS published Home Fire, a modern-day reimagining in novel form of Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone played out in modern-day London.

His later translations come from Confucius again, 1954, and Sophocles , 1956.

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.

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...

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 .

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...

As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes , Sophocles , Juvenal ) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler 's Essay on...