Original title: Antigone
Human translation · Translated by Joseph Edward Harry (†1949) · Source: Wikisource · Public domain
I have translated the Antigone for a special performance in the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati, on the afternoon of March the tenth. The drama will be staged by one of my former pupils, Miss Edna Mannheimer. If the play acts well (for no play is good, unless it is a good acting play) I shall not be dissatisfied with my version, whatever the other merits, or demerits, of my attempted transfusion of the drama may be. I… For my plagiarism of Shakesperian phraseology I have no apology to offer. I have resolutely refrained from consulting all previous translations of the tragedy except three. Two of these I have glanced at only occasionally; the third— Sir Richard Jebb’s —has been open before me constantly, so that the metempsychosis I have endeavored to make of the Antigone doubtless bears the impress of this monumental edition. Gree…Opening · Joseph Edward Harry
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