Tragedy of Antigone, the Theban Princesse - By Thomas May

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.

List of contents

Introduction
Textual Notes
Facsimile of the play

About the author

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

Summary

This photographic facsimile edition is the first time May's Antigone has appeared in print since 1631.

Product details

• Authors: Matteo Pangallo, Matteo Pangallo
• Assisted by: Paul Dean (Editor), Matteo Pangallo (Editor), Pangallo Matteo (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2016
• EAN: 9781526113917
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1391-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: The Malone Society; The Malone Society
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, Literary studies: general, Anthologies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights