Ancient tales 'go to the dark core of human experience', writes Harry EyresClaire Armitstead (Ancient tales are back in fashion " for telling it like it is, 16 July) is only partly right. Surely the truth is that these tales were never out of fashion. Take Sophocles' Antigone; before Kamila Shamsie updated the play, Jean Anouilh in France in 1944 used it as a parable of resistance versus collaboration, and Seamus Hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM on July 17, 2018