Antigone
Plot Overview
The Chorus introduces the players.
Antigone is the girl who will rise up alone and die
young.
Haemon, Antigone s dashing fiancé, chats with Ismene, her beautiful sister.
Though
one would have expected Haemon to go for...
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Antigone
Plot Overview
The Chorus introduces the players.
Antigone is the girl who will rise up alone and die
young.
Haemon, Antigone s dashing fiancé, chats with Ismene, her beautiful sister.
Though
one would have expected Haemon to go for Ismene, he inexplicably proposed to Antigone
on the night of a ball.
Creon is king of Thebes, bound to the duties of rule.
Next to the
sisters sits the Nurse and Queen Eurydice.
Eurydice will knit until the time comes for her
to go to her room and die.
Finally three Guards play cards, indifferent to the tragedy before
them.
The Chorus recounts the events leading to Antigone s tragedy.
Oedipus, Antigone and
Ismene s father, had two sons, Eteocles and Polynices.
Upon Oedipus death, it was agreed
that each would take the throne from one year to the next.
After the first year, however,
Eteocles, the elder, refused to step down.
Polynices and six foreign princes marched on
Thebes.
All were defeated.
The brothers
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