Antigone

In Greek mythology, Antigone [1] is the daughter of Oedipus and his mother, Jocasta. Over the years the myth has been the subject of many books, plays, operas and other works. The most famous play text is the Greek version by Sophocles, but there have been many others

International versions: Texts, translations and adaptations

Among the many stage plays based on the Antigone myth are:

Antigone (by Sophocles)

Antigone (by Euripides)[2]

Antigone (by Jean Cocteau)

Antigone (by Jean Anouilh)

Antigona Furiosa (by Griselda Gambaro)

Antigona (by Salvador Espriu)

Tegonni(by Femi Osofisan)

Antigone (by José Watanabe)

Antigone (by Mac Wellman)

Antígona Vélez (by Leopoldo Marechal)

''Antigone'' (by Bertolt Brecht)

Antigone (by Antonio D'Alfonso)

Antigone (by Don Taylor)

Antigone (by Eamon Flack)

Tegonni, an African Antigone (by Femi Osofisan)

South African versions

#Antigone (by Wendy Watson and Kenlynn Sutherland)

Sources

"Antigone" in Wikipedia[3]

E. F. Taiwo. 2014http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/4378. Deconstructing the " Fourth Wall " : Metatheatricality in Plautus' Miles Gloriosus and Osofisan's Tegonni in Canadian Social Science, 10(5), 146-152.[4]http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/4378

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