Sophocles

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 .

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).

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...