Antigone
by:
Sophocles (author)
Neil Curry (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781854592002 (1854592009)
Publish date: April 1st 2001
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Pages no: 80
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
High School,
Tragedy,
Mythology
Series: The Theban Plays (#3)
I probably enjoyed this play the least of the three Theban plays. It is really the tragedy of Creon and not Antigone and it marks the end of the destruction of the house of Oedipus. It is the most straight forward of the Theban plays and it has the structure and content that one expects of Greek d...
Read for my Law, Justice, and Morality class.
Read for my Law, Justice, and Morality class.
I remember reading this in high school, and I liked it much better then. I just re-read this, and I just don't think that it has anything near the complexity of Oedipus. I found it to be mostly uninteresting, and lacking in emotional punch.
A masterpiece that transcends the passage of time! How incredibly relevant this nearly 2,500 year-old drama is!While I couldn't even begin to enumerate all of the fascinating subtleties that are contained within this work, I will mention a few aspects that I believe will stick with me for the long h...
12 years ago
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