WorkSophocles

Antigone

Antigone (c. 441 BCE)

Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) · c. 441 BCE

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Documented 1845–1846

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Palmo’s—The Antigone.

“Palmo’s—The Antigone.”

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“The play, too, though in an ordinary translation, and so inadequately recited, except by Vandenhoff himself, seemed much nearer to us, and more impressive than a modern play”

Fuller, Margaret. "Palmo’s—The Antigone." New-York Daily Tribune, 16 April 1845. · 16 April 1845

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“our grief wants the true tragic element which hallows it in the Antigone, the Lear, and even Schiller's "Mary Stuart," or "Wallenstein.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.