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  2. Antigone (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    The Chorus in Antigone contrasts with the chorus in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, the play of which Antigone is a continuation. In a scene modern scholars believe to have been written after Aeschylus's death in order to make it consonant with Sophocles's play, the chorus in Seven Against Thebes is largely supportive of Antigone's decision to ...

  3. Antigone (Brecht play) - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Antigone (Anouilh play) - Wikipedia

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    Antigone was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Atelier on February 6, 1944, during the Nazi occupation.Produced under Nazi censorship, the play is purposefully ambiguous with regard to the rejection of authority (represented by Antigone) and the acceptance of it (represented by Creon).

  5. Antigone - Wikipedia

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    Antigone in Front of the Dead Polynices by Nikiforos Lytras, National Gallery, Athens, Greece (1865) In her own namesake play, Antigone attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices. Oedipus's sons, Eteocles and Polynices, had shared rule jointly until they quarreled, and Eteocles expelled his brother. In Sophocles' account ...

  6. The Burial at Thebes - Wikipedia

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    The Burial at Thebes: A version of Sophocles' Antigone is a play by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, based on the fifth century BC tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. It is also an opera by Dominique Le Gendre .

  7. Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    Sophocles [a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

  8. Antigone (Mendelssohn) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Jean Anouilh - Wikipedia

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    Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj]; [1] 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.