Antigone: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics).

Front Cover
Nick Hern Books, 2015 - Drama - 59 pages
The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are accurate and above all actable. The editions of English-language plays include a glossary of unusual words and phrases to aid understanding. Ant.

About the author (2015)

Sophocles was born around 496 B.C. in Colonus (near Athens), Greece. In 480, he was selected to lead the paean (choral chant to a god) celebrating the decisive Greek sea victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis. He served as a treasurer and general for Athens when it was expanding its empire and influence. He wrote approximately 123 plays including Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. His last recorded act was to lead a chorus in public mourning for Euripides. He died in 406 B. C.

Bibliographic information

TitleAntigone: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics).
NHB Drama Classics Series
AuthorSophocles
Translated byMarianne McDonald
PublisherNick Hern Books, 2015
ISBN1780012659, 9781780012650
Length59 pages
Subjects › 

Drama / General
Performing Arts / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan