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Antigone

In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
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Antigone is a timeless tragedy that explores the conflict between individual conscience and state authority. It centres on Antigone's courageous defiance of the king's edict to honour her brother with a proper burial, highlighting profound questions about justice, loyalty, and the human condition.
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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.

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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.

Series: Plays for Performance Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566632119

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 1998

Country: United States

Imprint: Ivan R Dee, Inc

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 142.0mm

Height: 218.0mm

Weight: 95g

Pages: 56

About the Author

The Plays for Performance series is edited by Nicholas Rudall, former artistic director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago where he is professor of classics, and Bernard Sahlins, founder and director of the Second City. They both live in Chicago, Illinois.

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