Little known and underexplored, the Prologue to Sophocles’ Antigone – the one-act play conceived by the Viennese playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the spring of 1900 for a Berlin production of the Sophoclean tragedy – represents an interesting attempt at a metatheatrical reflection on the Greek foundations of modern theatre, on the paradigmatic eternity of classical myths, and on theatre as a ‘mystery’ that conveys contents more true than those of everyday reality. The essay reconstructs the genesis of Vorspiel and highlights its main compositional demands. An Italian translation of Hofmannsthal text follows.
Il Genio della tragedia. Antigone nel "Vorspiel" di Hofmannsthal
Ugolini, Gherardo
2018-01-01
Abstract
Little known and underexplored, the Prologue to Sophocles’ Antigone – the one-act play conceived by the Viennese playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal in the spring of 1900 for a Berlin production of the Sophoclean tragedy – represents an interesting attempt at a metatheatrical reflection on the Greek foundations of modern theatre, on the paradigmatic eternity of classical myths, and on theatre as a ‘mystery’ that conveys contents more true than those of everyday reality. The essay reconstructs the genesis of Vorspiel and highlights its main compositional demands. An Italian translation of Hofmannsthal text follows.
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