Early Modern Antigones: Receptions, Refractions, Replays

Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe

“…7 Melanchthon and his circle at Wittenberg in the 1530s and 1540s laid the foundations of these 6 Crucial exceptions include Hartfelder, 363-65; Parente; Rhein; Ritoók-Szalay; Lurie, 2004Lurie, , 2006Lurie, , and 2012. 7 Pollard, 2017; Demetriou and Pollard;Leo, 2015Leo, , 2016Leo, , and 2019Wolfe, 2015 andMiola, 2014 andCrawforth;Ryan, 2015 later developments. Reconciling deep piety with sophisticated Aristotelian theory, their answers to the vexed problems of Christian tragedy complicate our overly neat histories of classical reception.…”

“… 7 Pollard, 2017; Demetriou and Pollard; Leo, 2015, 2016, and 2019; Wolfe, 2015 and 2018; Miola, 2014 and 2016; Crawforth; Ryan, 2015 and 2017; Suthren; Waller; Heavey. Several conferences held in 2018 began to address the topic: Classical and Early Modern Intersections: Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and Shakespeare's King Lear , Università di Verona, 22–25 May 2018; Ancient Greek Drama in Latin 1506–1590, King's College London, 3–5 September 2018; and Translating Greek Tragedy in Sixteenth Century Europe, University of Oxford, 14 December 2018.…”

Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama

“…In his survey of the early modern reception of the Antigone, Robert Miola notes that 'most early modern commentators and translators betray a deep unease with Sophocles' female hero'. 9 What Miola goes on to show, however, is that when authors do not explicitly approve of Antigone's action (which, as already noted, many actually do), they eschew explicit condemnation of the character, betraying their 'deep unease' by passing over the character of Antigone in relative silence and focusing instead on the figure of Creon. There is, in fact, only one exception in which 'unvoiced discontent turns to outright denunciation'.…”