Sophocles

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...

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...

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...

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...

AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...

Her screenplay Georgia, Georgia, 1972, was the first by an African-American woman to be filmed. She worked with others on adapting her first volume of autobiography for television under its original title, and she...