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Best known from Sophocles’ plays, Antigone - with her fierce familial loyalty and religious piety, her opposition to the law, and her willingness to sacrifice herself and her future marriage - has held a special fascination for modern and contemporary thinkers, showing up not only in theatrical (re)productions, but also as an exemplary figure for philosophers, political and psychoanalytic theorists, feminist thinkers, and novelists. What is more, her influence has not been limited to the Western tradition, for she has been reconceived on stages all over the world: Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Tracing key moments of the reception of Antigone from the nineteenth-century to the present, this course will explore what it is about Antigone that has proven so irresistible to playwrights and thinkers with a wide variety of political and aesthetic commitments. Giving particular attention to performances of Antigone around the globe, we will address how these versions negotiate the stakes of adaptation.