From The Theban Plays to the Center of the Authors and Poets of Gorgan:

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Associate Professor of Performing Arts, Department of Performing Arts, University of Tehran

2 Department of Performing Arts, University of Tehran

Abstract

Sophocles' Antigone is one of the most important classical works in the history of dramatic literature, and numerous adaptations have been made from it throughout the ages. Great playwrights such as Brecht and Anouilh have written the most important adaptations of this work, and repeated performances of Antigone have been staged all over the world in different eras. In Iran, in early 1980s, Ahmad Shamlu published a play adapted from Antigone in the Quarterly of the Writers and Poets Association of Gorgan, which is very neglected in his artistic career. In this research, while examining the dramatic aspects of the two works and comparing and matching them, efforts have been made to answer the question of what in Antigone inspired Shamlu to write this play, and how the thematic and structural characteristics of this play are related to Sophocles' Antigone. The data cllection for this research has been done by library method, and the research method is descriptive-analytical.

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Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Arts and Humanities
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 10
August 2025
Pages 213-232

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  • Receive Date: 09 February 2025
  • Revise Date: 21 March 2025
  • Accept Date: 11 June 2025

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