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Antigone at the Barbican was a 2015 filmed-for-TV version of a production at the Barbican directed by Ivo van Hove; the translation was by Anne Carson and the film starred Juliette Binoche as Antigone and Patrick O'Kane as Kreon. Other TV adaptations of Antigone have starred Irene Worth (1949) and Dorothy Tutin (1959), both broadcast by the BBC.
The book ends with a series of poignant questions from the poem “Death” by Harold Pinter, the answers to which are testimonies by victims and family members of the disappeared. The last question posed in the text is, “ Will you join me in taking up the body? ”, a somber question that both Antígona González and the Greek play Antigone ...
Dudley Fitts c. 1965. Dudley Fitts (April 28, 1903 – July 10, 1968) was an American teacher, critic, poet, and translator. [1] He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard University, where he edited the Harvard Advocate.
Antigone, also known as The Antigone of Sophocles, is an adaptation by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of Hölderlin's translation of Sophocles' tragedy. It was first performed at the Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948, with Brecht's second wife Helene Weigel , in the lead role. [ 1 ]
Antigone, Op. 55, MWV M 12, is a suite of incidental music written in 1841 by Felix Mendelssohn to accompany the tragedy Antigone by Sophocles, staged by Ludwig Tieck. The text is based on Johann Jakob Christian Donner 's German translation of the text, with additional assistance from August Böckh .
Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus King of Thebes, Greece, learns that her two brothers Polyneices and Eteocles have killed each other fighting on different sides of a war. Creon, Antigone's uncle and newly appointed King of Thebes, buries Eteocles, who fought on the Theban side of the war, hailing him as a great hero. He refuses to bury ...
Antigone (/ æ n ˈ t ɪ ɡ ə n i / ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ἀντιγόνη) is a play by the Attic dramatist Euripides, which is now lost except for a number of fragments. According to Aristophanes of Byzantium , the plot was similar to that of Sophocles ' play Antigone , with three differences.
Antigone (Greek: Aντιγόνη, Antigone) is a 1961 Greek film adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It stars Irene Papas in the title role and was directed by Yorgos Javellas , who also adapted the play for the film.