Antigone

Translations and adaptations

  • 1550 – Georgio Rotallero: text in Latin
  • 1729 – George Adams, prose: full text
  • 1782 – Vittorio Alfieri, in hendecasyllables: text in Italian
  • 1839 – Johann Jakob Christian Donner, German verse
  • 1865 – Edward H. Plumptre, verse (full text on Wikisource, with audio)
  • 1888 – Sir George Young, verse (Dover, 2006; ISBN 978-0486450490)
  • 1899 – G. H. Palmer, verse (Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1899)
  • 1904 – Richard C. Jebb, prose: (full text on Wikisource)
  • 1911 – Joseph Edward Harry, verse (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke, 1911) (full text on Wikisource)
  • 1912 – F. Storr, verse: full text
  • 1926 – Ettore Romagnoli, in hendecasyllables, text in Italian
  • 1931 – Shaemas O'Sheel, prose
  • 1938 – Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, verse: full text
  • 1946 – Jean Anouilh, (modern French translation)
  • 1947 – E. F. Watling, verse (Penguin classics)
  • 1949 – Robert Whitelaw, verse (Rinehart Editions)
  • 1950 – Theodore Howard Banks, verse
  • 1950 – W. J. Gruffydd (translation into Welsh)
  • 1953 – Félix Morisseau-Leroy (translated and adapted into Haitian Creole)
  • 1954 – Elizabeth Wyckoff, verse
  • 1954 – F. L. Lucas, verse translation
  • 1956 – Shahrokh Meskoob (into Persian)
  • 1958 – Paul Roche, verse
  • 1962 – H. D. F. Kitto, verse
  • 1962 – Michael Townsend, (Longman, 1997; ISBN 978-0810202146)
  • 1973 – Richard Emil Braun, verse
  • 1982 – Robert Fagles, verse with introduction and notes by Bernard Knox
  • 1986 – Don Taylor, prose (The Theban Plays, Methuen Drama; ISBN 978-0413424600)
  • 1991 – David Grene, verse
  • 1994 – Hugh Lloyd-Jones, verse (Sophocles, Volume II: Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus, Loeb Classical Library No. 21, 1994; ISBN 978-0674995581)
  • 1997 – George Judy, adaptation for children (Pioneer Drama, 1997)
  • 1998 – Ruby Blondell, prose with introduction and interpretive essay (Focus Classical Library, Focus Publishing/R Pullins Company; ISBN 0941051250)
  • 1999 – Declan Donnellan, with introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole (Oberon Books, 1999; ISBN 978-1840021363)
  • 2000 – Marianne MacDonald, (Nick Hern Books, 2000; ISBN 978-1854592002)
  • 2001 – Paul Woodruff, verse (Hackett, 2001; ISBN 978-0-87220-571-0)
  • 2003 – Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, verse (Oxford UP, 2007; ISBN 978-0195143102)
  • 2004 – Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes – verse adaptation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005; ISBN 978-0374530075), also adapted as an opera in 2008
  • 2005 – Ian C. Johnston, verse (modern English): full text
  • 2006 – George Theodoridis, prose: full text
  • 2006 – A. F. Th. van der Heijden, 'Drijfzand koloniseren' ("Colonizing quicksand"), prose, adapting Antigone's story using characters from the author's 'Homo Duplex' saga.
  • 2009 – Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Lynn Nottage, Chiori Miyagawa, Caridad Svich, play adaptation (NoPassport Press, 2009; ISBN 978-0578031507)
  • 2011 – Diane Rayor, Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation. Cambridge University Press.
  • 2012 – Anne Carson, play adaptation (Antigonick, New Directions Press; ISBN 978-0811219570)
  • 2013 – George Porter, verse ("Black Antigone: Sophocles' tragedy meets the heartbeat of Africa", ISBN 978-1909183230)
  • 2014 – Marie Slaight and Terrence Tasker, verse and art ('"The Antigone Poems, Altaire Productions; ISBN 978-0980644708)
  • 2016 – Frank Nisetich
  • 2016 – Slavoj Žižek, with introduction by Hanif Kureishi, Bloomsbury, New York
  • 2017 – Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, novel. An adaptation in a contemporary context, London: Bloomsbury Circus. ISBN 978-1408886779
  • 2017 – Brad Poer, Antigone: Closure, play adaptation (contemporary American prose adaptation set post-fall of United States government)
  • 2017 – Griff Bludworth, ANTIGONE (born against). A contemporary play adaptation that addresses the theme of racial discrimination.
  • 2017 – Seonjae Kim, Riot Antigone. A punk rock musical adaptation inspired by the Riot grrrl movement that focuses on Antigone's coming of age.
  • 2019 – Niloy Roy, Antigone: Antibody, play adaptation (contemporary Indian adaptation set in post-anarchic context of conflict between state and individual)
  • 2019 – Sophie Deraspe, Antigone
  • 2019 – Beth Piatote, Antíkoni, a modern Indigenous (specifically Nez Perce) play adaptation, published in The Beadworkers (CounterPoint Press, ISBN 978-1640092686)
  • 2023 – Edward Alexander, Antigone,, verse, Invictus Publishing, ISBN 979-8393254292

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