Antigone in the 16th Century. Thomas Watson and Other Adaptations of the Sophoclean Drama

Sophocles’ Antigone circulated widely in sixteenth-century Europe, as shown by its many editions, translations, and adaptations. Yet a systematic study of its reception across different national contexts has been lacking. This collection of essays addresses that gap, beginning with Thomas Watson’s Latin version, examined by Dana Ferrin Sutton and Roger S. Fisher for its juridical and political…