Antigone
By: Sophocles ; translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Contributors: Wertenbaker, Timberlake, translator; Sophocles
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: Oedipus' daughter protests the lack of funeral rites for her brother Polyneikes after his death in the civil war of Thebes, leading to a final tragedy. Timberlake Wertenbaker's translation of Sophocles' trilogy of Theban plays, including 'Oedipus Tyrannos' and 'Oedipus at Kolonos, was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford upon Avon, in 1991, under the collective title of 'The Thebans'.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Oedipus plays. London: Faber, 1992.

Translated from the Ancient Greek.