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(0)Sophocles
1) Antigone
Author
Publication Date
1970
Lexile Measure
1570L
Summary
Publisher's description: Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This exciting new translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek and poetically striking and convincing.
2) Oedipus Rex
Author
Series
Publication Date
1982
Lexile Measure
1010L
Summary
AN EPIC TRAGEDY, WIDELY CONSIDERED TO BE A MASTERPIECE
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles' finest play is considered by many to be the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies. First produced sometime around 429 BC, it exhibits near-perfect harmony of character and action and is a work of extraordinary power which has circulated throughout world culture for thousands of years.
After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by...
Publication Date
[2002]
Summary
The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
9) Antigone
Publication Date
c2001
Summary
A filmed play adaptation from the Jean Anouilh reinterpretation of the Sophocles tragedy. First written and produced during the Nazi Occupation, this play about a young woman facing a morally corrupt world raises powerful questions of human interaction in regard to collaboration, responsibility and personal integrity.
