The Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse: By Thomas May

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse: By Thomas May
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Matteo Pangallo
SeriesThe Malone Society
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:120
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 168
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9781526113917
ClassificationsDewey:822.4
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 20 December 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Thomas May's The Tragedy of Antigone (1631), edited by Matteo Pangallo, is the first English treatment of the story made famous by Sophocles. This edition contains a facsimile of the copy held at the Beinecke Library of Yale University, making the play commercially available for the first time since its original publication. The extensive introduction discusses, among other things, the ownership history of existing copies and their marginal annotations, and of the play's topical political implications in the light of May's wavering between royalist and republican sympathies. Writing during the contentious early years of Charles I's reign, May used Sophocles' Antigone to explore the problems of just rule and justified rebellion. He also went beyond the scope of the original, adding content from a wide range of other classical and contemporary plays, poems and other sources, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. This volume will be essential reading for advanced students, researchers and teachers of early English drama and seventeenth-century political history. -- .

Author Biography

Matteo Pangallo is Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University -- .