Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal: 20th and 21st Century Rewritings of the Antigone Myth

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Main sources

1 Sophocles’ Antigone

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

3 Antigone’s French Genealogy

4 Jean Cocteau and Oedipus’ Daughter

5 Jean Anouilh’s Antigone: A Free “translation” of Sophocles

6 Seven Reflections on María Zambrano’s La Tumba de Antígona (Antigone’s Tomb)

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

7 António Sérgio’s Antígona: “a social study in dialogue form”

8 António Sérgio’s Antigone Revisited: Two Invectives against the Salazar Dictatorship

9 Júlio Dantas’ Antigone: Or the Martyr of Late Romanticism

10 Taking Liberties: António Pedro’s Recreation of Antigone

11 Antígona by António Pedro: Dialogues with European Aesthetic Currents

12 Creon, the Tyrant of Antigone on Stage: His Reception in Júlio Dantas and António Pedro during the Portuguese Dictatorship

13 Antigone: Code Name – Mário Sacramento’s One-act Play

14 “Like a Ghost of Antigone”: Ganhar a Vida (Get a life), by João Canijo

15 Antigone, Daughter of the D’Annunzian Oedipus. The Oedipus Trilogy (1954) by Castro Osório

16 Antigone, Fruit of a Twisted Vine: Hélia Correia’s Perdição

17 A Brief “Antigone”: Eduarda Dionísio’s Antes que a noite venha (Before the Night Comes)

18 Myth and Dystopia: Antígona Gelada (Frozen Antigone) by Armando Nascimento Rosa

Conclusion

Appendix: A Chronology of Recreations, Editions and Performances

Select Bibliography and References

Index Locorum

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects