6/21/2023 0 Comments Greek play antigoneHistorical tragedy (the staple of theatre from Shakespeare to the present) again was very rare. Invented plots with fictitious people and events were very few (and not found before the late fifth century). Like virtually all Greek poetry at all periods in antiquity, its subject matter was heroic myth. The Athenian theatre was far more limited than this. We are used to a theatre which can embrace past and present, fictitious and historical, bizarre fantasy and mundane reality. Greek tragedy is a remarkable fictional creation. Sophocles' Antigone in Context by Professor Chris Carey The following three essays explore the play's themes and context. Seven complete plays of his survive, of which Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus are the most well-known and frequently performed. He won at least twenty victories in the tragic competitions, and never came third (last), a feat which suggests that he was the most successful of the three. 497/6- 406/5 BC) is, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of the three ancient Greek tragic playwrights by whom complete plays survive.
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