![]() ![]() ![]() Appropriated both by the Nazi regime and by factions of the Resistance, Hölderlin’s Antigone was exploited as a political, subversive document or as representative of a nationalistic classical tradition. I will focus in particular on Friedrich Hölderlin’s adaptation (1804), which is one of the very earliest postRevolutionary witnesses to the political understanding of the play: it is particularly interesting because it provides a context for Bertolt Brecht’s and other twentieth-century adaptations of the myth and it represents a crucial step towards the current interpretative model in which Antigone is an icon of radical dissent and resistance. In this paper, I will offer a historicised reading of Antigone’s conceptualisation as a political play by analysing its reception in twentieth-century Europe.
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