My theatre company has decided to do a production of Antigone by Sophocles translated by R.C. Jebb in 1893. Link to the online play can be found here, http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html.
There are other translations of the play, but R.C. Jebb's version seems to have kept with the more original way in which Antigone was presented back around 442 B.C.E. The struggles and complications that Antigone must endure throughout the play continue to represent many of the struggles other women have had to go through such as with women suffrage. In a more general sense "Antigone," shows how power can be very corrupt and at many times difficult to stand up to and over through. According to Oxford Reference Online the name Antigone from origin means born against or in a way contrary to.
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(ORO, names and places Antigone)
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