Sophocles: Antigone

Performance (Video)

  • Video of stage performance with Issac Silva as Creon (2016?) [YouTube]
  • Video of stage performance, dir. / tr. / adapt. Theodora Voutsa, Amsterdam (2016) [YouTube]
  • Video of stage performance, dir. / tr. Michael Ewans, Newcastle, NSW, Australia (1996) [YouTube]
  • (Not great quality transfer-to-digital) film version with Juliet Stevenson (1984) in 11 parts on YouTube [Part 1 of set uploaded by CeeGg] [Playlist uploaded by SCCPSSEnglish]

 

  • Antigone in Ferguson (Theatre of War) at Onassis Festival, NY (2017?) [Vimeo]; cf. also documentary on AllArts with excerpts from production

English Translations

  • F. Nisetich in Lefkowitz and Romm (2016) [Google Books preview]
  • A. Carson (tr.), Sophokles:  Antigone (London, 2015)
  • R. S. Fisher, Antigone v. Creon: Sophocles’ Antigone as a Courtroom Drama [commentary plus a new “free verse” translation] (Toronto, 2014) [WorldCat]
  • D. J. Rayor (Cambridge, 2011; NY: HarperPerennial, 2012) [Google Books preview]
  • D. Taylor (tr.) and A. Varakis (ed.), Sophocles: Antigone, Methuen Student Editions (London, 2006) [the translation itself is from 1986] [Bloomsbury]
  • M. McDonald, K. McLeish and F. Raphael, Greek Tragedy, Drama Classic Collections [includes Antigone] (London, 2005)
  • D. Franklin and J. Harrison [tr., comm], Cambridge Translations from Greek Drama (Cambridge, 2003) [WorldCat]
  • R. Gibbons and C. Segal (Oxford, 2003)
  • P. Woodruff (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2001)
  • M. McDonald (London: Nick Hern, 2000) [repr. in Greek Tragedy, 2005]
  • N. Rudall (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998; repr. 2007) [WorldCat]
  • D. W. Myatt, Antigone (Shrewsbury, 1990) [Online at david.myatt.tripod.com]
  • A. L. Brown (ed., tr., comm.) (Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1987 / 1991) [WorldCat]
  • R. E. Braun (Oxford, 1974)
  • D. Brown [“slightly abridged”] (Cambridge, 1969)
  • K. McLeish (tr., adapt.), Four Greek Plays [incl. Oedipus the King and Antigone] (London, 1964)
  • M. Townsend (San Francisco: Chandler, 1962)
  • P. D. Arnott, Oedipus the King and Antigone (New York, 1960; repr. Arlington Heights, IL, 1987) [Google Books preview]
  • C. Weaver Robinson (New York, 1959; repr. 1970)
  • C. W. E. Peckett (London and Glasgow, 1958)
  • F. Kinchin Smith (London, 1950)
  • G. Murray (London, 1941)
  • D. Fitts and R. Fitzgerald (Oxford, 1939)
  • L. J. Morison (London, 1939)
  • O. L. Holland [“according to the metres of the original”] (London, 1931)
  • S. O’Sheel (Brooklyn, 1931) [repr. in Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations (Boston, 1957)]
  • M. Neufeld (Madison, WI: Experimental College Players, 1930)
  • H. Macnaghten (Cambridge, 1926)
  • A. Harvey (Girard, KS, 1924)
  • R. C. Trevelyan (Liverpool, 1924; repr. Cambridge, 1939, 1958)
  • J. Harrower (Aberdeen, 1920) [Short essay describing the production and context]
  • J. E. Harry (Cincinnati, 1911) [HathiTrust]
  • M. R. Weld (Bedford, 1905)
  • E. Fogerty, in Standard Plays for Amateur Performance [incl. Antigone; Sophocles’ Electra;Euripides’ Alcestis] (London, 1903) [Antigone printed separately — described as “adapted and arranged” (is this the same text?): HathiTrust]
  • H. R. Fairclough and A. T. Murray (San Francisco, 1902)
  • G. H. Palmer (Boston and New York, 1899)
  • C. E. Laurence [“close translation in metrical English”], Marchant-Bell’s Illustrated Classics (London, 1898)
  • anon., Oedipus Tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone, “The Oxford Translation,” rev. ed. (Oxford, 1897) [seems to = Buckley 1849 in complete translations] [Google Books]
  • E. B. Ginty [“for the representation of the play by the students of University College, Toronto”] (Boston; New York, 1894)
  • A. H. Allcroft and B. J. Hayes [“with introduction, notes, vocabularies and translation”] (London, 1889)
  • R. Broughton [“closely rendered”], The Oxford Translations of the Classics (Oxford, 1887)
  • R. Mongan (Dublin, 1881)
  • J. G. Brinklé, in Poems (Philadelphia, 1872)
  • J. W. Donaldson [“Greek and English”] (London, 1848) [Google Books] [HathiTrust]
  • D. Spillan, The Antigone and Oedipus Colonaeus of Sophocles (Dublin, 1831) [WorldCat]
  • T. W. C. Edwards (London, 1824 [Google Books], 1846)
  • G. Downes, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone [“literally translated”] (Dublin, 1823) [Google Books]

Freer Adaptations

  • L. Raczka, Antigone: After Sophocles (London, 2020) [WorldCat]
  • K. Shamsie, Home Fire (2017 [?]) — a novel based on Antigone [Guardian review] [SMH review]
  • G. Bludworth, ANTIGONE (born against.) (2017)
  • B. Dorries (tr., dir.) and P. Woodmore (music), Antigone in Ferguson [Theater of War page] (2016)
  • A. D’Alfonso, Antigone: An Adaptation of Sophocles’ Play (Victoria, BC, 2015) [WorldCat]; orig. (Toronto, 2004) [WorldCat]
  • J. M. Griffiths, Antigone (Melbourne, 2014 [?]) [WorldCat]
  • B. Roberts, Antigone (Woodstock, IL, 2014) [WorldCat]
  • R. Williams, Antigone [“inspired by Sophocles”] (London, 2014) [WorldCat] [Google Books preview]
  • R. Prochaska, Antigone: Through the Ages (2012 [?]) [WorldCat] [StageScripts]
  • A. Carson, Antigonick (2012) [Google Books preview] [WorldCat] [Article in Observer] [Review in the Guardian] [Filmed reading]
  • G. Porter, Black Antigone (2012) [Google Books preview] [WorldCat]
  • A. Smith and L. Paoletti (illustrator), The Story of Antigone (London, 2011) [WorldCat]
  • R. Cardullo, Antigone Adapted [includes translations of Antigone adaptations by L. R. Sanchez (1968) and D. Smole (1959)] (Bethesda, MD, 2010) [Google Books preview] [WorldCat]
  • N. E. Cuellar-Garcia, The Children of Oedipus: A Re-imagination of Sophocles’ Antigone (Tallahassee: Eldridge Publishing Company, 2011) [WorldCat]
  • D. Rush, Antigone: A Drama (NY: Playscripts, 2011) [WorldCat]
  • T. Ryan, We Are Antigone: A Short Play (NY: Playscripts, 2011) [WorldCat]
  • L. Lochhead, (Theatre Babel’s) Thebans: Oedipus, Jokasta, Antigone (London, 2011 [WorldCat]; orig. performed at Edinburgh Fringe 2003 [WorldCat])
  • F. Osofisan, Tegonni: An African Antigone (Lagos, 2007) [originally performed at Emory University in 1994] [WorldCat]
  • R. Engling, Antigone and Macbeth: Adaptations for a War-Torn Time (Chicago, 2006) [WorldCat]
  • E. Mann, Antigone (Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Pub., 2006) [WorldCat]
  • S. Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone (London, 2005) [WorldCat]
  • B. Morrison, Oedipus and Antigone by Sophocles (Halifax, 2003) [Review of stage performance] [unclear whether it’s meant as a translation or an adapation, but because it combines the two plays, and the writer admittedly has no Greek, I classify it as an adaptation]
  • K. Davis, Antigone: Based on the Play by Sophocles (NY: Scholastic, 2003) [WorldCat]
  • G. Banks, Antigone (Minneapolis: Plays for Young Audiences, 2002 [?]) [WorldCat]
  • G. Wolf, S. Rao, and I. Roy (illustrator), Sophocles’ Antigone [retold for young readers] (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum and Tara Publishing, 2001; repr. Chennai: Tara Books, 2015 / 2017) [WorldCat]
  • D. Stuttard, Antigone: Acting Script (Actors of Dionysus, 2001) [WorldCat]
  • B. Kennelly, Antigone (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1996) [originally performed in 1984] [Review by Cairns in Classics Ireland] — collected in When Then Is Now: Three Greek Tragedies [= Antigone, Medea, Trojan Women] (Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2006) [WorldCat]
  • T. Paulin, The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles’ Antigone (1984)
  • C. A. Mathews, The Antigone (unpublished typescript, 1984) [Performed at the Project Arts Center, Dublin]
  • B. Brecht, Antigone (1948) [Wikipedia]
  • J. Anouilh, Antigone (1944), tr. B. Bray (London: Methuen, 2000) [WorldCat]
  • C. E. Robinson, in The Genius of the Greek Drama [“rendered and adapted” — specifically, truncated to fit into an hour, but some material added: incl. Agamemnon; Antigone; Medea] (Oxford, 1921) [HathiTrust]
  • W. Bartholomew, An Imitative Version of Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone [written and adapted to go with Mendelssohn’s music; used Donner’s German translation as guide] (London, 1845)
  • F. Hölderlin, Oedipus and Antigone, tr. D. Constantine (High Green: Bloodaxe, 2001) [WorldCat]

Greek Texts and Scholarly Commentaries

Recent Scholarship

  • D. Stuttard (ed.), Looking at Antigone (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) [WorldCat]
  • D. Cairns, Sophocles: Antigone, Bloomsbury Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy (London / New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) [Review by Scodel in BMCR]
  • K. Pewny et al. (eds.), Occupy Antigone: Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance (2016) [Google Books preview]
  • B. Honig, Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013) [Review by Hannaway in BMCR]
  • A. M. Beardinelli and G. Greco (eds.), Antigone e le Antigoni: Storia, forme, fortuna di un mito. Atti del convegno… (Florence: Le Monnier, 2010) [WorldCat]