{"product_id":"antigone-sophokles","title":"Antigone (Sophokles)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophocles' great tragic play dramatises the clash between family and the city and, through high poetry and deep tragedy, presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype - the personification of personal integrity and political freedom, and the play has been staged and adapted numerous times over the centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is published here in Don Taylor's classic translation with commentary and notes by David Bullen. The commentary looks at the original performance conditions that would have shaped the impact of Antigone in 441 BCE; key choices made by the translator; key ideas in the play taken up by philosophers such as Hegel and Butler; and more recent translations and adaptations by the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Anne Carson, Moira Buffini, Kamila Shamsie and Inua Ellams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSophocles\u003c\/b\u003e (496-406 BC) was one of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece; he wrote 123 plays during a career of 60 years and was still writing at the age of 90. Only seven tragedies survive, of which the most famous is \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cb\u003eDon Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e (1936-2003) was a playwright and poet, and a director of theatre, television and radio plays. He worked as drama director at the BBC, and between 1960 and 1990, he directed nearly a hundred television plays. He translated and directed for BBC Television the Theban plays of Sophocles - \u003ci\u003eOedipus the King\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOedipus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eat Colonus\u003c\/i\u003e. He followed this with translations of three Euripides war plays - \u003ci\u003eIphigenia at Aulis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Troy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHelen\u003c\/i\u003e. He was co-director of Compass Theatre for while and set up First Writes Radio with Ellen Dryden. Don Taylor's many stage plays include \u003ci\u003eThe Roses of Eyam\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrotherhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen the Actors Come\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRetreat from Moscow\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhen the Barbarians Came\u003c\/i\u003e and his last play \u003ci\u003eThe Road to the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Bullen\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre, and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK where he has taught since 2013. He is a theatre director, writer, and academic, specializing in the histories of feminist theatre making as well as feminist and queer adaptations of canonical texts. He has published work on feminist theatre making and adaptation in theatre and film in a range of internationally reaching journals and edited collections; he is the author of \u003ci\u003eGreek Tragedy as 21st Century British Theatre: Why, What, How.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 112 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65813234549085,"sku":"K010817148","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1081714800001A.jpg?v=1788540131","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/antigone-sophokles","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}