Abstract
This project aims to study the reception of Sophocles' Antigone in two plays of the Spanish theater dating from the years of the Francoist Spain (1939-1975): José María Pemán's Antígona: adaptación muy libre de la tragedia de Sófocles (1945), and María Zambrano's La tumba de Antígona (1967). Set in a post-civil war scenario, the Sophoclean tragedy's core is both the disobedience of Antigo…