Sophocles

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...

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...

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...

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...