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by Jean Anouilh
The most recent translation of Sophocles’
Antigone is The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney. Skidmore College U.S.A. have informative web pages on the play, with essays on theatre, themes, and Heaney's translation.
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(In his recent appearance at the Oxford Literary Festival, Heaney quipped that the book could have been called 'An Open Letter to George Bush')
George Steiner’s book Antigones examines the Antigone myth through the centuries.
Antigone and Greek Tragedy explores Sophocles’ play in the light of theatrical conditions, drama as genre, and plot and interpretations. If you get ‘page not found’ remove 25 from the URL (twice) and you get it as a word file.
This site has a worthwhile discussion of Antigone by Brendan Kennelly: ‘Doing Justice to Antigone’, as well as background on Greek funeral rites.
by Athol Fugard
Much background information and interviews on this site: The Crossings Project
Read up on the history of Apartheid in South Africa.
This Wikipedia site is extensive. It includes photographs and information on the Pass Laws
Listen to an interview with Fugard
Read a scholarly article on the meaning of Greek drama in South Africa. And another.
Fugard made the successful film Tsotsi, based on his only novel.
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antigone
by Tom Stoppard
In this lecture Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, compares the play with other plays in the ‘theatre of the Absurd’ vein, and concludes:
“Stoppard is mocking Shakespeare's play, emphasizing its irrational barbarity and weirdness. He is having fun, creating startlingly new and original metaphors and reinterpreting the past, not with a sense of what its past meaning might be, but rather to suit himself”.
A teacher from Hornsby Girls Highschool has prepared these study units
for his students: unit 1 unit 2
Enjoy the Game of Questions once again. Watch it on Youtube.
On this site, scroll past the synopsis and production notes foe a discussion of genre: “the other side of the coin”,
“For the title characters, the action of the play becomes a kind of Escher print, entrances leading to other entrances, with an always-incomplete understanding of the implications of what went on before. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are romantics in an anti-romantic play, striving for reality in a world of illusion, provided with a role but without an action”.
Read the original ending
By Peter Shaffer
Unfortunately, there are few useful web resources to be found on the play.
The PBS has a site on conquistadors, including Pizarro. For more information on the Incas and Pizarro’s conquest, go here
This site discusses the element of worship in Shaffer’s plays.
The best approach, for all the four group 3 works, is to consider past paper questions in the light of these plays.
PART 3 WORKS
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Link to Part 1 works
Link to Part 4 works
Link to Part 2 works
Link to
Paper 2
The island
The royal hunt of the sun
Library resources