Juliet Stevenson plays Antigone. click on link below to playlist of all 11 parts of this “Antigone”: youtube.com John Churton Collins: But if Creon is punished, Antigone is punished also. Does she deserve her fate ? Are we to understand that the poet in his moral does not design to represent that the law which she vindicates should supersede the law which Creon vindicates? A careful study of the play will surely show that he leaves the question practically unanswered, or at all events that what can be urged on either side is so nicely balanced that it is difficult to say on which side the scale inclines. It is important to remember that if a poet is a moralist and a teacher he is primarily an artist. Antigone is a noble and pathetic creation, and the poet has lavished on her all that can impress and move us. Of this effect he has been more studious than of the solution of any moral problem. Sophocles’ Theban Plays, directed and translated by Don Taylor for this production–go here to see Taylor’s “Oedipus Rex”: www.youtube.com and here to view “Oedipus at Colonus”: www.youtube.com to see Irene Papas as Antigone (1961 film), go here: www.youtube.com Cast: Juliet Stevenson … Antigone John Shrapnel … Creon Patrick Barr … Chorus Paul Daneman … Chorus Donald Eccles … Chorus Robert Eddison … Chorus Patrick Godfrey … Chorus Ewan Hooper … Chorus Peter Jeffrey … Chorus Noel Johnson … Chorus Robert Lang … Chorus John Ringham … Chorus Frederick Treves …
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