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Ancient Reperformances of Sophocles [PDF]

Trends in Classics, 2015
Abstract:This chapter examines the evidence for early reperformances of Sophocles’ plays in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, making use of literary, inscriptional, and iconographical evidence to show the importance of the reperformance tradition for his plays in these early stages of their transmission, both in Attica and elsewhere in the Greek world.
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MILTON’S SUBVERSION OF THE GREEK TRAGIC FORM IN SAMSON AGONISTES [PDF]

Hum, 2022
When it comes to analyzing Milton’s moral vision in his major works, his tragedy Samson Agonistes is something of a curiosity. Unlike in Milton’s other major two works, the epics Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, where themes of morality, sins ...
Denis Kuzmanović
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“OEDIPUS THE KING” BY SOPHOCLES IN THE IMMANENT INTERPRETATION OF EMIL STAIGER [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2021
The article aims to distinguish the original immanent reception of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King” by the famous Swiss literary scholar Emil Staiger and to present it to Ukrainian explorers for the first time. Due to the complex application of the
Oleh А. Radchenko
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Pasolini the screenwriter. The process of writing “Oedipus Rex”

Finzioni, 2022
For the film Edipo re (1967), Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote four screenplays, which are now in the “Alessandro Bonsanti” Contemporary Archive at the Gabinetto G. P. Vieusseux in Florence.
Silvia Martín Gutiérrez
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Antigone’s Phallus Envy and Its Comparison to Indonesian Dramas’ Characters: A Freudian Perspective

Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2021
Antigone’s character has developed phallus envy. Phallus envy seems to also appear in the Indonesian dramas Djinak-Djinak Merpati and Kami, Perempoean which were written during the Japanese colonialization in Indonesia.
Dina Amelia
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Mitul Electrei în reprezentări scenice / Electra’s Myth in Theatre Representations [PDF]

Incursiuni în imaginar, 2016
In time, Electra’s myth inspired many authors, resulting in remarkable literary works, adapting the “story” according to the patterns or the spirit of age.
Gabriela Chiciudean
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First as Creon, then as Chorus: Slavoj Žižek’s Antigone

Interlitteraria, 2020
The article critically evaluates The Three Lives of Antigone, Slavoj Žižek’s first dramatic work. Žižek’s polemical rewriting of Sophocles’ tragedy is examined in the broader perspective of Žižek’s philosophy and other Antigones: those of Sophocles, Jean
Matic Kocijančič
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Sofocle medioevale. Per la storia di una citazione tragica in area bizantina [PDF]

Parole Rubate, 2020
This article focuses on a particular expression from Sophocles’ "Ajax": “with her share of many years”. Referring to and highlighting the old age of Eriboea, the heroe’s mother, this phrase came into fashion in the Byzantine age, as attested by ...
Giovanna Battaglino
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The role of third actor in Sophocles’ Ajax

Cuadernos de Literatura, 2022
Faced with the bare comment that Aristotle makes regarding the incorporation of a third actor by Sophocles to the tragedy, interpretive criticism agrees in understanding that this innovation enables sophisticated dramatic effects.
Pedro Luis Villagra Diez
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The world of adults and the world of adolescence: the education of the hero in Sophocles’ Philoctetes [PDF]

Hypothekai
Sophocles’ tragedy Philoctetes is examined as an original reinterpretation of the problem of a young man’s upbringing in the absence of a father, drawing on Homeric texts in which Diomedes and Telemachus likewise grow up without their fathers and ...
Victoria K. Pichugina
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