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Antigone de Don Taylor

Antigone

Traducere de Don Taylor Autor Sophocles Editat de Dr Angie Varakis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mai 2006

Tragedia clasică Antigone de Sophocles reprezintă un pilon fundamental al literaturii universale, explorând tensiunea insurmontabilă dintre legea cetății și legile nescrise ale divinității și familiei. Suntem de părere că această ediție din seria Penguin Little Black Classics oferă o poartă de acces ideală către teatrul antic, reușind să condenseze într-un format compact esența dramei tebane. Premisa este una de o intensitate brutală: după un război civil fratricid, noul rege Creon interzice îngroparea lui Polyneices, lăsându-l pradă vulturilor, în timp ce Antigone alege să sfideze moartea pentru a-și onora fratele.

Putem afirma că ceea ce distinge acest volum este structura sa didactică riguroasă. Spre deosebire de The Complete Sophocles de Peter Burian, care oferă o perspectivă de ansamblu asupra întregului ciclu teban, acest volum se concentrează pe analiza profundă a contextului original al reprezentației din anul 441 î.Hr. și pe evoluția textului către formele sale moderne. Reținem integrarea unor secțiuni dedicate temelor filosofice abordate de Hegel sau Butler, dar și referințele la producții contemporane, precum cea a Teatrului Național din 2012. Ca și Sophocles' Antigone de Diane J. Rayor, lucrarea urmărește să facă textul accesibil pentru studii academice, însă ediția de față pune un accent deosebit pe dispozitivele dramatice și pe funcția corului, elemente pe care Sophocles le-a revoluționat în cariera sa.

În contextul operei sale, Antigone se situează alături de The Theban Plays și Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies, fiind piesa în care autorul demonstrează cea mai mare măiestrie în conturarea unor caractere complexe, care nu sunt simple arhetipuri, ci ființe dominate de pasiuni și dileme etice profunde.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780413776044
ISBN-10: 0413776042
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această ediție oricărui cititor pasionat de literatură clasică sau filosofie politică. Veți câștiga o înțelegere clară a mecanismelor tragediei grecești și a modului în care un text vechi de peste două milenii continuă să influențeze dezbaterile actuale despre drepturile omului și autoritatea statului. Este un instrument de studiu esențial datorită aparatului critic bogat care explică contextul istoric și teatral al Atenei antice.

Despre autor

Sophocles (c. 497–406 î.Hr.) este unul dintre cei trei mari autori de tragedie ai Greciei Antice a căror operă a supraviețuit timpului. De-a lungul unei cariere de peste cincizeci de ani în Atena, a scris peste 120 de piese, câștigând 24 de competiții dramatice la festivalurile Dionysia și Lenaea. Inovațiile sale, precum introducerea celui de-al treilea actor și reducerea rolului corului în favoarea dialogului dintre personaje, au transformat fundamental structura dramei. Cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale rămân piesele tebane, centrate pe destinele tragice ale lui Oedip și ale copiilor săi, Sophocles fiind recunoscut pentru profunzimea psihologică oferită personajelor sale.

Descriere

The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions.

Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies his edict. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to be buried alive. The people daren't object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger the gods: the rotting corpse is polluting the city. Creon hesitates and his fate is sealed.

Sophocles' great tragic play dramatises the clash between the family and the city and, with high poetry and deep tragedy, presents an irreconcilable but equally balanced conflict. Sophoclean heroine Antigone has become a cultural archetype, the symbol of personal integrity and an icon of political freedom, whilst her coprotagonist Creon can be interpreted as either a civic saviour or a ruthless tyrant.

This translation by Don Taylor, accurate yet poetic, was made for a BBC TV production of the Theban Plays in 1986, which he directed.

Notă biografică

Sophocles (ca. 495–405 BCE) was an ancient Greek dramatist. Elizabeth Wyckoff (1915–1994) was a professor of classics at Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Among her translations are the versions of Sophocles’s Antigone and Euripides’s The Phoenician Women included in Chicago’s Complete Greek Tragedies. Glenn W. Most is a visiting member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Mark Griffith is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature, and professor of classics and theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Recenzii

A lucid, well-paced translation, natural enough sounding in the dialogue to make a good acting version, and remarkably successful in making the choruses clear, lyrical, and yet part of the dramatic movement. Woodruff's rendering of the choruses especially impresses me by the way he manages to render complex syntax and imagery of the original--often tangled and occasionally obscure in its allusiveness--into clear and genuinely poetic English. --Joseph Russo, Haverford College

When a play has been translated as many times as the Antigone, a new version has to have some remarkable qualities in order to merit attention. Happily, Woodruff's Antigone has just that. Most notably, his text is performable: when read aloud it displays real pace and force. . . . Of course, performability is often gained at the expense of what we might call 'faithfulness' to the original text--and in practical terms, this means that a performance translation rarely serves well as a teaching text. Woodruff, then, has pulled off a remarkable feat in that this edition will serve the teacher and student of Sophocles as well as it would the actor. The original line numbers are preserved and the text is seldom distorted: Woodruff is aware that the words used by Sophocles matter, and employs footnotes to good effect to explain points of linguistic and cultural interest in a concise and accessible way. The flavour of Sophocles' play is also preserved by the stage directions, which are envisaged in terms of the ancient rather than the modern stage. The choral odes--which are translated with particular clarity--are also marked and divided into strophes and antistrophes. What also sets the translation apart is the quality of the introduction and appendices, which are both well informed and address the reader in a direct way. Woodruff succeeds in being straightforward but not patronizing and whilst his target audience is presumably a student of A-level or university level, this edition would be a good starting point for any intelligent adult who wished to read the play. Woodruff frames scholarly debates in such a way as to invite reaction from the reader and to encourage informed debate. Notable, too, is that he strives to keep the text 'open': as well as presenting different scholarly views on the play, he even provides 'Endnotes' where he provides information on readings of the manuscripts, thus providing access to debates from which the student is normally excluded. As part of this project--and refreshingly in my view--he makes his own presence felt: he informs us as to his own views on the play and spells out his objectives as a translator, thus opening up yet another aspect of investigation and debate. This is a provocative edition of the Antigone, which fulfills many of its high ambitions. For me, the vibrancy of Woodruff's approach to the play shines through, giving us a text just waiting to be read aloud, discussed and debated. --James Robson, The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review

Cuprins

Chronology

Contexts (original performance conditions in 441 BCE including the multiple dimensions of the City Dionysia; what is known about Sophocles; the cultural tradition into which Antigone fitted; Athens the city-state in the mid-fifth century BCE)

Translation (transition of Antigone from fifth century BCE performance to the text Don Taylor worked with)

Themes (philosophical ideas in Antigone taken up by philosophers such as Hegel and Butler)

Key moments (key dramatic moments, using the 2012 National Theatre production to investigate these moments)

Characters (Antigone; Creon as civic saviour or ruthless tyrant; Teiresias)

Dramatic devices

Play in performance (with a focus on the 2012 National Theatre production, which used Don Taylor's translation and interviews with practitioners from this production, including director Polly Findlay, dramaturg Ben Power and actors Christopher Eccleston and Jodie Whittaker)

PLAY TEXT

Notes

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Sophocles' masterpiece Antigone dramatizes the terrible series of events that results when patriotism clashes with familial duty—and hubris incites the wrath of the gods.
The sons of Oedipus have killed each other on the battlefield, but Thebes' new ruler, their uncle Kreon, decrees that only Eteokles will be granted a hero's burial; Polyneikes, who attacked his own city, is left to rot in dishonor. Their sister Antigone, enraged by the king's heartlessness, defies him by burying Polyneikes' body herself. That decision dooms her, and the consequences destroy Kreon's wife and son. A play that begins with a woman's defiance of a tyrant ends in the havoc caused by Eros, the god of love. A drama abounding with moral conundrums, Antigone is presented in an extraordinary new translation by Robert Bagg, modern in idiom while faithful to the original Greek. Ideally suited for reading, teaching, or performing, this is Sophocles for a new generation to discover and admire.