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	Acts of War
		His Antigone is a wild-eyed, scraggly-haired fanatic, motivated more by familial love than by fear of divine wrath, while his Creon is a man who simply did what was needed to hold the State together in the wake of Polynices' rebellion.
		Antigone is resolute, however, and strides to a glorious death, her head held high.
		Antigone reads the script and is so inspired by the bravery of her fictional counterpart that she refuses to take part in Creon's drama and commits suicide.
	www.amrep.org /past/antigone/antigone5.html (900 words)

	Antigone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antigone's sister, Ismene, then declares she had aided Antigone and desires the same fate, although she was innocent.
		Antigone's character and these incidents of her life present an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae.
		Antigone placing the body of Polynices on the funeral pile occurs on a sarcophagus in the villa Pamfili in Rome, and is mentioned in the description of an ancient painting by Philostratus (Imag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antigone (891 words)

	Antigone
		Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, and her best known story is in the Antigone of Sophocles, which is one part of the Theban Saga.
		Antigone decides she must disobey, arguing that a law of man which violates religious law is no law at all.
		The Antigone is much admired for being the first and most enduring statement of the conflict between the need for social order and the feeling that on occasion higher law may supersede human law.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/antigone.html (367 words)

	Fiction. Bartleby.com
		Capturing the beauties of everyday small-town life, the modern reader is transported to a time past—where life was much simpler but in many ways just as complex.
		The 37 plays, 154 sonnets and miscellaneous verse that constitute the unrivaled literary cornerstone of Western civilization.
		The controversial play that ignited the “Playboy Riots.”
	www.bartleby.com /fiction (1174 words)

	SparkNotes: Antigone: Part IV
		Antigone affirms his account and also confesses to having come the night before; the child's shovel on the scene was once Polynices's.
		Antigone retorts that had she been a scullery maid she would have done the same.
		Antigone's role as the mother to the next heir is far more valuable to Thebes than her death.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/antigone/section4.rhtml (1244 words)

	Antigone, A Discussion of her Biography and Nature
		Antigone buries Polyneices on the plain of Thebes.
		Antigone went far beyond what is required, and we are grateful for what she did, but we cannot condemn any that were too weak to follow.
		Antigone (1972), This 1972 stage adaptation of Sophocles' famous tragedy is propelled by the captivating performance of the distinguished actress Genevieve Bujold in the title role.
	www.fjkluth.com /antigone.html (1309 words)

	Freshwater Seas--Theater
		Each of these plays is a tried-and-true tested performer, both in the original version--some of which have held the stage for centuries--and in my translation or adaptation, which have all been successfully produced.
		The five men are Kreon, brother of Jocasta, wife and mother of Oedipus; Haimon, Creon's son, engaged to marry Antigone; Tiresias, a priest and reader of omens; a soldier, one of Kreon's men, and a messenger, another of Creon's men.
		In this play, as in the other two, a young woman tries to teach a man a lesson; in this play, as in the other two, she learns a sharp lesson herself.
	www.freshwaterseas.com /plays/plays.htm (2389 words)

	MonkeyNotes-Antigone by Jean Anouilh-Free Book notes/Chapter Summary
		Antigone is totally possessed by the interests of her sacred duties to her family, and Creon, by the interests of the community and his political life.
		Sometimes, Antigone is judged as immoral for her refusal to live under the law of the state; but she believes her 'unwritten laws' are eternal.
		Antigone's rebellion and exercise of individual liberty is not to be praised strictly in terms of a religious context.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmAntigoneAnouilh32.asp (799 words)

	ANTIGONE
		Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus who killed his father and married his mother, but would not give up until he discovered these facts.
		Antigone is truly his daughter, and once she decides to defend what she knows is right, that “unwritten law of the gods,” she will not give up.
		Antigone’s uncompromising loyalty to her brother brings the punishment of the state, while Creon’s rigid upholding of the law brings about the destruction of his family.
	www.sixthatpenn.com /antigone.htm (4257 words)

	Performance Tradition and Modern Theatre,Discover Indians,It created great rupture from the performance tradition of ...
		The significant contribution of Bhasa's plays to the development of the new theatre is ironical as his plays were discovered only in 1913.
		His most popular play Jokumaraswamy, which received the national award, starts with a fertility rite in honour of the phallic deity Jokumar, who is worshipped in the form of a snake gourd and then consumed by those desirous of bearing children.
		Plays were written of epic and puranic stories, historical and social subjects.
	www.4to40.com /discoverindia/index.asp?article=discoverindia_theatre (8036 words)

	Amazon.com: Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antigone is not easy to love or like: she is bent on following a path that will lead to her death, welcoming such a release from the terrible burden of being who she is: daughter of her brother Oedipus and granddaughter of her mother Jocasta.
		Antigone is no "reactionary." Her father had been Tyranos (ruler without the negative connotations of tyrant) in Thebes, which is exactly the same position that Kreon holds now.
		Antigone, as portrayed in "Oedipus Rex" is a child who weeps for her parents, her brothers, and her country after the unfolding of tragic events.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486278042?v=glance (2544 words)

	Freshwater Seas--The Antigone of Sophocles
		The tragedy of the play is that he cannot see, until it is too late, that he is not in fact serving that good.
		From this point on, something very important is established in the play: it is an action carried out in public, in which the public is fully involved and implicated; essentially, it is a battle for the hearts and minds of the chorus.
		Antigone has crossed the line; she has transgressed the business of the law and the city, areas which are the province of men.
	www.freshwaterseas.com /plays/antigone/antigone.htm (2603 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		Thus Anouilh's rewriting of the play was produced in occupied Paris in 1944, and Bertolt Brecht's adaptation was staged in Switzerland in 1948.
		Indeed the difficulty or reluctance of the actor to play a role larger than life is inseparable from the corresponding difficulty of the audience in understanding it: the actor intuitively apprehends what they can and cannot be made to see; and so ends by mirroring the audience's limitations.
		Particularly relevant to the academic setting of the workshop were the potentially competing demands of the scholar and the performer or director: on the one hand to reconstruct the original meaning of the work; on the other to make it accessible to a contemporary audience.
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol1no3/allen.html (2206 words)

	King Lear
		In the entire play little more than a hundred lines are assigned to her; yet, throughout the five acts, we can never forget her, and at the close she lingers in our recollection as if we had seen some being more beautiful and purer than a thing of earth.
		A garbled version of the play as written by the poet was prepared by one Nahum Tate, who, not understanding the art of Shakespeare and having no dramatic art himself, thought to adopt the original to the popular taste.
		The modern play-goer does not greatly concern himself with the deeds and thoughts of the powers supernal, and if he can see human beings set forth on the stage, with their virtues and infirmities, would willingly leave the gods to manage their own affairs.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/kinglear001.html (1178 words)

	GradeSaver: Antigone Essay: Influence of Antigone on A Doll's House
		In merely looking at the surface, one notices right away that both plays are significant in that they avoid the social temptation of using a man as a protagonist.
		Both Antigone and Nora step into the spotlight as the female hero who has been put in a compromising situation and is forced to decide whether it is more important to follow what society dictates, or go with what they feel is moral and just.
		Antigone is faced with the death of both brothers, one who is to be buried with full military rites, while the other, under dictate of the king, is to be cast aside and allowed to rot in the sun.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/antigone/essay1.html (812 words)

	The Burial at Thebes: Performance History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Apparently this play had a happy ending – Haemon helps Antigone to bury Polyneices and the god Dionysus prevents her execution and tells her that she will marry Haemon.
		Unlike the heroine in the Sophocles original, an irrational Antigone is moved not by religious duty, but by her love for her brother, and Creon is a weak leader who tries his best to preserve the status quo and save his niece from her own actions by stressing the importance of common sense.
		Anouilh’s play was performed in New York in 1945 and in London in 1949.
	www.skidmore.edu /fye/bat/performance-history.html (1120 words)

	Island of Freedom - Sophocles
		The seven extant plays are Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae (Maidens of Trachis), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus (produced posthumously in 401 BC).
		Antigone bestows the rites of burial upon her battle-slain brother Polynices in defiance of the edict of Creon, who was the ruler of Thebes.
		Sophocles is considered by many modern scholars the greatest of the Greek tragedians and the perfect mean between the titanic symbolism of Aeschylus and the rhetorical realism of Euripides.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /SOPHOCLE.HTM (946 words)

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		From the obsessive campaign waged against him by the Kennedys to the fraying of the Marxist society he created, this is a remarkable portrait of the dictator who brough Communism to America's doorstep and kept it there for decades.
		Kirk Douglas plays the title character, revelling in the role's rougish elan.
		Modern scientists think that the basic functional unit of memory is a cell assembly, a group of neurons that work together for one specific remembering task.
	www.tcnj.edu /~gened/videos.htm (10814 words)

	comparison compare contrast essays -- A Comparison of Antigone and A Doll's House
		The play was considered "revolutionary" because it broke several "molds" which had endured for centuries.
		Both Antigone and Nora step into the spotlight as the female hero who has been put in a compromising situation and is forced to decide whether it is more important to follow what society dictates, or go with what they feel is moral and just.
		Antigone is faced with the death of both brothers, one who is to be buried with full military rites, while the other, under dictate of the king, is to be cast aside and allowed...
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=8488 (1633 words)

	The Theban Plays of Sophocles; Oedipus/Antigone
		He argues in his introduction to Antigone that there is a crucial moment in the play when, as Antigone is taken off to her entombment, she says she would not have broken the law to bury a child or husband in the way she did it to bury Polynices.
		She argues all the way through the play that she has an obligation to bury her brother under the circumstances (that she cannot have any more brothers, since all three of them are dead, as are her parents -- one of her brothers, of course, being also one of her parents).
		And remember, this play was written at a time long before much of our currently accepted morality was discovered or figured out, and even today, we are still discovering (and sometimes inventing bad) principles which we think are moral duties.
	www.akat.com /Oedipus.html (3569 words)

	Amazon.com: Antigone: DVD: Yorgos Javellas,Irene Papas,Manos Katrakis,Maro Kodou,Nikos Kazis,Ilia Livykou,Yannis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The play is performed in Greek (with subtitles), so I would never recommend it as the first exposure any one has to the performance of an ancient play; there is a 1972 version with Genevieve Bujold that would better serve.
		Irene Papas as Antigone, Manos Katrakis as Creon, Maro Kodou as Ismene, Nikos Kazis as Haemon, Ilia Livykou as Eurydice, Yannis Argyris as A Sentry, Byron Pallis as A Messenger, Tzavalas Karoussos as Tieresias, Thodoros Moridis as Elder of Thebes, Giorgos Vlahopoulos as Elder of Thebes, G.
		Karetas as Elder of Thebes, Irene Papas as Antigone, Manos Katrakis as Creon, Maro Kodou as Ismene, Nikos Kazis as Haemon, Ilia Livykou as Eurydice, Yannis Argyris as A Sentry, Byron Pallis as A Messenger, Tzavalas Karoussos as Tieresias, Thodoros Moridis as Elder of Thebes, Giorgos Vlahopoulos as Elder of Thebes...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002T2QAQ?v=glance (1507 words)

	Drama: Antigone
		Creon, the king of Thebes, forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule.
		Antigone, soon to marry Creon's son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother Polyneices.
		doom of his promised bride, Antigone, and bitter for the baffled
	drama.eserver.org /plays/classical/sophocles/antigone.txt (9885 words)

	Anarchism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		There, Antigone openly refuses to abide by the rulers' decree to leave her brother Polyneices' body unburied, as punishment for his participation in the attack on Thebes, saying that "even if no one else is willing to share in burying him I will bury him alone and risk the peril of burying my own brother.
		The first modern author to have published a treatise explicitly advocating the absence of government was William Godwin in An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793); though he did not use the word anarchism, Some today regard him as the "founder of philosophical anarchism"http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/.
		Anarchists played a role in many of the labour movements, uprisings, and revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Russian Revolution (1917).
	anarchism.iqnaut.net (7454 words)

	The Antigone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antigone has broken the laws of the king, while fulfilling the laws of the gods; for, according to the ideas of the Greeks, to sprinkle dust thrice over the body of the dead was equivalent to burial.
		So even in their last addresses to Antigone, there must be a mixture of painful recollections, that she may drain the full cup of earthly sorrows.
		After the completion of the deed, and the suffering endured for it, there yet remains the chastisement of insolence, and retribution for the destruction of Antigone: nothing less than the utter ruin of Creon's whole family, and his own despair can be a worthy death-offering for the sacrifice of a life so costly.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates017.html (2780 words)

	Digital Essays - Free Term Papers and Free Essays
		Read Essay Antigone Sophocles' trilogy of Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone is a powerful tragic tale that examines the nature of human guilt fate and punishment.
		Modernism is a generic term applied to the beginnings of the "new literature" that came with the twentieth century.
		In the beginning of the play Macbeth seems to be the genuine hero and generally he is a good man. Macbeth even praises Duncan at certain points before he murders him.
	www.digitalessays.com /english (10759 words)

	Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antigone, a character who appears in each of the plays, comes into her own in the play title Antigone, when she shows courage, and insight into the...
		Similar to the plays opposing chess players might take when the outcome of the match begins to follow a certain pattern — the result is inevitable — one will win and go...
		The first on is a modern play, out of the absurdist theater tradition and while the later is a play from the Elizabethan tradition.
	www.essaysportal.com /Drama_and_Theater/1.html (644 words)

	Death of A Salesman (ISBN 0140481346): Very Well Said™
		This play is the genuine article--it's got the goods on the human condition, all packed into a day in the life of one self-deluded, self-promoting, self-defeating soul.
		During the play they both try to convince the other one that their way is the way to be successful and to make a living.
		I think that this play is a great play to read for a drama class, because it makes you have a great outlook on life and realize that you could have everything you could ever what right there in front of you.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/d/death-of-a-salesman-0140481346.php (16137 words)

	One Year Lease
		But if a play's goal is to weigh alternatives, one good and one evil, a juicy villain can tip the scales right over.
		Her opponent is Creon, a martinet running war-torn Thebes (Antigone, naturally, is a threat to Order).
		She explains that Antigone, Creon, and the others aren't characters: they're archetypal cogs in a Tragedy Machine, playing roles that allow no deviation.
	www.oneyearlease.org /ANT2k.html (560 words)

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