“Antigone” is a play with a serious body count. As the third and final volume of Sophocles' Theban plays, “Antigone” begins with the death of two brothers and ends with a triple suicide. “Antigone” is ...
In Greek mythology, Antigone (/ ænˈtɪɡəni / ⓘ ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη, romanized: Antigónē) was a Theban princess and a character in several ancient Greek tragedies. She was the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes; her mother/grandmother was either Jocasta or, in another variation of the myth, Euryganeia. She was the sister of Polynices, Eteocles, and Ismene ...
Antigone By Sophocles Written 442 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb Dramatis Personae daughters of Oedipus: ANTIGONE ISMENE CREON, King of Thebes EURYDICE, his wife HAEMON, his son TEIRESIAS, the blind prophet GUARD, set to watch the corpse of Polyneices FIRST MESSENGER SECOND MESSENGER, from the house CHORUS OF THEBAN ELDERS
Guard/Theban/Elder Off-Broadway The Antigone of Sophokles 1984 Hamon/Theban Off-Broadway The Antigone of Sophokles 1984 Ismene/Theban Off-Broadway The Antigone of Sophokles 1984 Kreon/Theban ...
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 ...
One of Sophocles’ earliest surviving plays, Antigone is often thought of a perfect specimen of Ancient Greek tragedy.
“Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?