Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal : 20th and 21st century rewritings of the Antigone myth / edited by Carlos Morais, Lorna Hardwick, Maria de Fatima Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morais, Carlos, editor.

Hardwick, Lorna, editor.

Silva, Maria de Fátima Sousa e, editor.

Series:

Metaforms ; Volume 9.

Metaforms : Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity, 2212-9405 ; Volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portuguese drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Portuguese drama.

Portuguese drama--21st century--History and criticism.

Antigone (Mythological character)--In literature.

Antigone.

Sophocles--Influence.

Sophocles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal gathers a collection of essays on the Portuguese drama rewritings of this Theban myth produced in the 20th and 21st centuries. For each of the cases analysed, the Portuguese historical, political and cultural context is described. This perspective is expanded through a dialogue with coeval European events. As concerns Portugal, this results principally in political and feminist approaches to the texts. Since the importation of the Sophoclean model is often indirect, the volume includes comparisons with intermediate sources, namely French (Cocteau, Anouilh) and Spanish (María Zambrano), which were extremely influential on the many and diversified versions written in Portugal during this period.

Contents:

Introduction / Carlos Morais , Lorna Hardwick and Maria de Fátima Silva

Part 1: Main sources

Chapter 1: Sophocles’ Antigone / Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos Nikoloutsos

Chapter 2: Portraits of Antigone in Portugal and Brazil: The Reception of Antigone in the 20th and 21st Centuries / Lorna Hardwick

Antigone’s French Genealogy / Stéphanie Urdician

Jean Cocteau and Oedipus’ Daughter / Maria do Céu Fialho

Jean Anouilh’s Antigone: A Free “translation” of Sophocles / Maria de Fátima Silva

Chapter 6: Seven Reflections on María Zambrano’s La Tumba de Antígona (Antigone’s Tomb) / Andrés Pociña and Aurora López

Part 2: Portuguese Reception of Antigone (20th–21st Centuries)

Chapter 7: António Sérgio’s Antígona: “a social study in dialogue form” / Carlos Morais

Chapter 8: António Sérgio’s Antigone Revisited: Two Invectives against the Salazar Dictatorship / Carlos Morais

Júlio Dantas’ Antigone: Or the Martyr of Late Romanticism / Maria do Céu Grácio Zambujo Fialho

Chapter 10: Taking Liberties: António Pedro’s Recreation of Antigone / Carlos Morais

Chapter 11: Antígona by António Pedro: Dialogues with European Aesthetic Currents / Inês Alves Mendes

Creon, the Tyrant of Antigone on Stage: His Reception in Júlio Dantas and António Pedro during the Portuguese Dictatorship1 / Maria de Fátima Silva

Chapter 13: Antigone: Code Name – Mário Sacramento’s One-act Play1 / Maria Fernanda Brasete

Chapter 14: “Like a Ghost of Antigone”: Ganhar a Vida (Get a life), by João Canijo / Nuno Simões Rodrigues

Chapter 15: Antigone, Daughter of the D’Annunzian Oedipus. The Oedipus Trilogy (1954) by Castro Osório1 / Ália Rosa Rodrigues

Chapter 16: Antigone, Fruit of a Twisted Vine: Hélia Correia’s Perdição / Maria de Fátima Silva

Chapter 17: A Brief “Antigone”: Eduarda Dionísio’s Antes que a noite venha (Before the Night Comes) / Maria de Fátima Silva

Chapter 18: Myth and Dystopia: Antígona Gelada (Frozen Antigone) by Armando Nascimento Rosa / Maria do Céu Fialho

Conclusion / Carlos Morais , Lorna Hardwick and Maria de Fátima Silva.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34006-8

OCLC:

965535057

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004340060 DOI