num_pages: 56
description: One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Plays for Performance Series.
language: English
title: Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
titlecomplete: Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall (Plays for Performance Series)
characters: Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Creon, Tiresias, Haemon
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Read For School, High School, Mythology, Literature, School
ratings_count: 144913
series: The Theban Plays
publisher: Ivan R. Dee