“Virginia Woolf once wrote that Electra, another famous Sophocles ingenue, ‘stands before us like a figure so tightly bound that she can only move an inch this way, an inch that.’ And yet contemporary theater seems to see Antigone as a character who can be moved quite freely.”

New plays shown in New York's theater festivals early last month.

The Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is both a misnomer and an anomaly. It has long dedicated itself to the task of promoting the reading and writing of poetry and has, for eighty-five years, served as a niche for poets the world…