Sophocles

Standard Name: Sophocles

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Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's Our Ajax, a play about modern warfare freely adapted from Sophocles ' Ajax, opened at Southwark Playhouse . It was published the same month.
Billington, Michael. “Our Ajax — review”. theguardian.com.
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Performance of text Liz Lochhead
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 .
Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern.
title-page, prelims
Publishing Charlotte Lennox
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).
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
18
, No. 4, pp. 317-44.
327
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Features Ruth Fainlight
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.
Evans-Bush, Katy. “The Poet Realized. An Interview with Ruth Fainlight”. Contemporary Poetry Review.
Textual Features Thomas Hardy
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...
Textual Features Anne Carson
The designer was Carson's husband, Robert Currie (who also designed her next publication, Antigonick, an unorthodox version of Sophocles ' Antigone).
Anderson, Sam. “The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson”. New York Times Magazine, p. 20.
Pages have the appearance of collages. Black-and-white photographs are presented without caption...
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 (...
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 Ezra Pound
His later translations come from Confucius again, 1954, and Sophocles , 1956.
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 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...

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