Study Guides
Objective for this Page: To provide supplemental
guidance and analysis when reading and writing about the play.
Classics Technology
Center study guide for Antigone This guide is indexed to the
line count in the Loeb translation at Tufts'
Perseus site, which is listed as the Jebb translation. This is
actually Roger
Dunkle's 1986 study guide at the Brooklyn College website.
John Black's 9
essay prompts for Antigone at Malaspina U's Liberal Studies pages
Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Classics at Temple University,
lists a few notes and
questions for the play.
The
ClassicNote
website contains a short summary, a longer summary, 5 sections of summary
and commentary, a bio of the author Sophocles, background to the play that tells
about the Athenian festival for Dionysus and the play competitions associated
with it. The onsite ministore (click the photo of one book at left) sells
4 versions of the book, the Barron's study guide (yeah!), the Cliffs Notes study
guide (oh, no! ugh! ptui!), and both the Irene Pappas movie (1961) with English
subtitles and the Amy Greenfield (1990) in videotape and DVD. The site
includes a 40-item multiple-choice quiz, mostly on the action of the play, which
has been taken by over 8,000 people who averaged 70% correct. For student
essays, you have to pay $2.95 at this site just to read the essays, though all
other pages are free. At least a couple of the titles, though, seem to be
the same as essays appearing in whole or in part at 123helpme.com--which are
mocked on the essay page of this site you are now
reading.
Stephanie Brink Hoeper created a
unit plan for getting her North Dakota high school students to write a
review of the live production as if they were ancient Athenian theater
goers. [It has to help that Sophocles probably won the playwriting
competition the year that Antigone debuted in Athens.]
Judi
Wyatt, a Canadian teacher at the American School in Lima, Peru, suggests a
demanding assignment best done in drama production classes, that including
scripting, sketching, and video. Nevertheless, it could lead to some
interesting thinking, especially when couple with the production
notes linked from this website.
Assessment: Choose an above link that interest you.
Read it carefully, take notes, and then organize notes and your ideas for an
essay using the web site as a guide.
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