This guide lists selected sources for library criticism of Antigone by Sophocles

Reference Books

• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (Ref PN 88 .C552) Volume(s):
  • 2: 289, 296, 299-301, 303-04, 306-09, 311, 314-15, 318-20, 324-35, 327, 331, 334-35, 338-40, 342-43, 345, 349-50, 360, 366, 368, 377-78, 380-383, 393-97, 417-19, 423, 426-28
  • 47: 272-73, 275-78, 268-87, 337, 341, 346-52, 356
  • 51: 287, 290, 294, 299-300, 304, 313
• Drama for Students (Ref PN 1701 .D73) Volume(s):
  • 1: 1-19
• Drama Criticism (Ref PN 1601 .D59) Volume(s):
  • 1: 412-13, 414-16, 422-23, 425-26, 431-33, 435-46, 450, 460-64, 466-70

General Collection Books (may be checked out)

• Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles (PA 4417 .S69 1990) (PA 4417 .S69 2003)
• Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone. (PA 417 .S693) (1996,1999 editions available)
• Downs, Robert B. "Creator of Tragic Character: Sophocles." Famous Books, Ancient and Medieval. (Z 1012 .D74) (pp. 51-56)
• Hathorn, Richmond Y. "Sophocles' Antigone: Eros in Politics." Tragedy, Myth, and Mystery. (PN 1892 .H27) (pp. 62-78)
• Jones, John. "Action and Actors: Antigone and Oedipus the King." On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy. (PA 3131 .J6 1980) (pp. 177-91)
• O'Brien, Joan V. Bilingual Selections from Sophocles' Antigone: An Introduction to the Text for the Greekless Reader. (PA 4414 .A72 O2 1977)
• Segal, Charles. "Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus." Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles. (PA 4417 .S47 1999) (pp. 152-206)
• Smith, Helaine L. "Sophocles: The Antigone." Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama. (PA 3131 .S59 2006) (pp. 63-82)
• Weissman, Philip. "Sophocles' Antigone: The Psychology of the Old Maid." Creativity in the Theater: A Psychoanalytic Study. (PN 2039 .W4) (pp. 190-203)

E-Books

• Bloom, Harold, ed. Sophocles' Oedipus Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone. (PA 4417 .S693 1996eb). eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).
• Milch, Robert. King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone: Notes, including introduction and backgrounds, life of Sophocles, summaries and commentaries, note on translations, suggested reading, examination questions. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).

Online Resources (Reference Articles and Databases)

• Literature Resource Center
• Literature Criticism Online
• Literature Online

Articles

Use periodical databases, such as Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, and JSTOR for recent journal articles like those posted below.

• Chanter,Tina. "Tragic Dislocations: Antigone's Modern Theatrics." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10 (1998): 75+. [Academic Search Premier]
• Cropp, Martin. "Antigone's Final Speech." Greece & Rome 44 (1997): 137(24). [JSTOR]
• Frank, Bernhard. "Sophocles' 'Antigone.'" The Explicator 56 (1998): 170(2). [MasterFILE Premier]
• Kastely, James L. "From Formalism to Inquiry: A Model of Argument in Antigone." College English 62.2 (1999): 222-241. [JSTOR]
• Russon, John. "Reading and the Body in Hegel." CLIO 22 (1993): 321(16). [Academic OneFile]
• Walsh, Lisa. "Her Mother Her Self: The Ethics of the Antigone Family Romance." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 14 (1999): 96-125. [Academic Search Premier]

Revised and updated by Ivy Jarvis, Fall, 2008.

Updated by Allison Ringness, Fall, 2012.