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    Antigone
    Antigone
    Antigone
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    Antigone

    By Sophocles

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    Antigone, a tragedy written by Sophocles, is the last of the classic Oedipus Rex plays.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781518334849
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    Sophocles

    Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than or contemporary with those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides.

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      Antigone - Sophocles

      ANTIGONE

      ..................

      Sophocles
      Translated by F. Storr

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      Copyright © 2015 by Sophocles

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Antigone

      Argument

      Dramatis Personae

      Scene. Antigone and Ismene before the Palace gates.

      ANTIGONE

      ..................

      ARGUMENT

      ..................

      ANTIGONE, DAUGHTER OF OEDIPUS, THE late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon’s watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son’s death has stabbed herself to the heart.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

      ..................

      Antigone and Ismene - daughters of Oedipus and sisters of Polyneices and Eteocles.

      Creon, King of Thebes.

      Haemon, Son of Creon, betrothed to Antigone.

      Eurydice, wife of Creon.

      Teiresias, the prophet.

      Chorus, of Theban elders.

      A watchman

      A messenger

      A secondMessenger

      SCENE. ANTIGONE AND ISMENE BEFORE THE PALACE GATES.

      ..................

      Antigone

      Ismene, sister of my blood and heart,

      See’st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfill

      The weird of Oedipus, a world of woes!

      For what of pain, affliction, outrage, shame,

      Is lacking in our fortunes, thine and mine?

      And now this proclamation of today

      Made by our Captain-General to the State,

      What can its purport be? Didst hear and heed,

      Or art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?

      Ismene

      To me, Antigone, no word of friends

      Has come, or glad or grievous, since we twain

      Were reft of our two brethren in one day

      By double fratricide; and since i’ the night

      Our Argive leaguers fled, no later news

      Has reached me, to inspirit or deject.

      Antigone

      I know ’twas so, and therefore summoned thee

      Beyond the gates to breathe it in thine ear.

      Ismene

      What is it? Some dark secret stirs thy breast.

      Antigone

      What but the thought of our two brothers dead,

      The one by

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