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PRE-ORDER Sophokles Antigone Playtext

PRE-ORDER Sophokles Antigone Playtext

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Author: Sophocles; Carson, Anne

Format: Paperback

Pages: 72

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Expected publication date: 2026-08-06

This item is available for pre-order. We will ship out your order as soon as possible after the publication date. You will receive an email notification once your order is shipped.

Details

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, Antigone refuses to leave his body unburied. Defying her uncle's governance she forges ahead with the funeral alone, placing personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction.

T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson, offers a vivid translation of Sophokles' tragic masterpiece that was first staged in a ground-breaking production at the Barbican in 2015, directed by Ivo van Hove.

A raw and beautiful adaption, Sophokles. Antigone is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Laura Jansen.