Sophocles

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...

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 (...

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.

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).

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.

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 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...

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...

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...

The language, entirely spare and unadorned, links the play on the one hand to contemporary television reports and on the other to the ancient mode of tragedy. Ian with his eyes put out unaffectedly recalls...

Phippy, the skinny, inadequate, lower-class Hugh Minden Philipson, makes a progress from school . . . . . . to school (first as pupil, then as teacher). A scholarship takes him to an evidently...

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...