The antigone6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Where Creon was ambiguous in Oedipus, the unexplored sides of his character are brought forth as his tyrannical ways have caused Thebes to once again fall ill. Antigone finds herself engaged to her cousin Haemon, and her father’s former kingdom now ruled by her uncle Creon. The play follows its titular character, the daughter of Oedipus, after the events of Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. ![]() First performed around 441 – 442 B.C.E., it still enraptures audiences today with its exploration of pertinent themes like free will and civil disobedience. Considered to be Sophocles’ most political play in the Oedipus Trilogy, Antigone was actually written before the other plays, though it takes place last chronologically. ![]()
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