Readings on Antigone

by Don Nardo (Editor)

Essays discuss the play's story, historical background, themes, characters, and modern productions

160 pages, Library Binding

First published March 1, 1999

About the author

Don Nardo (born February 22, 1947) is an American historian, composer, and writer. With close to four hundred and fifty published books, he is one of the most prolific authors in the United States, and one of the country's foremost writers of historical works for children and teens.

Reviews

[Liam Malone · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I like best about this book are experts writing essays about aspects of the Antigone and of Sophocles and his era. The essays are fast reads but carry deep messages. So even if an essay is 4 pages it is still going to teach us something. There were many things I relearned. I read a translation of the play Friday Feb 23, then read the bulk of this book Saturday Feb 24 & into the afternoon of Sunday Feb 25; then read Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes on the evening of Sunday Feb 25.

It was a weekend of Antigone. It was a great weekend.