Sophocles

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.

When asked, in a seventieth birthday interview on Raidió Teilifís Éireann , what he might like as an epitaph, he quoted the words which Sophocles gives the Messenger reporting on the hero's death in Oedipus...

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...

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).

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 (...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...