Back in college, when I mentioned I was writing a paper on Antigone as presented in both the Sophoclean original and in Jean Anouilh's 1944 French Resistance"era update, a dorm friend rolled her eyes. "She is such a useless martyr!" she proclaimed. I couldn't exactly disagree"except to ponder, "What makes a useful martyr?" That's part […] The post <i>Antigone</i> is a stirring conclusion to Court's Oedi…
