These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity, and are equally suitable for reading or theatrical performance. Antigone dies rather than neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus's determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. a modern telling of two Greek classics, live on camera by Sophocles Guildford School of Acting at Bellairs Theatre Director: Trevor Rawlins Design: PJ. So when in time a son was born the infants feet were riveted together and he was left to die on. Storr To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. Unlike her father, however, Antigone possesses a remarkable ability to remember the past. Within the first fifty lines, she is planning to defy Creon’s order and bury Polynices. Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. The Three Theban Plays - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus - Antigone by Sophocles Translation by F. Antigone Antigone is very much her father’s daughter, and she begins her play with the same swift decisiveness with which Oedipus began his.
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