Antigone may not share the fame of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, but it forms a worthy close to the trilogy of Theban plays; whereas Oedipus is, to some extent, the unwitting plaything of the gods, both Antigone and Creon, Oedipus’ successor as king, find themselves locked in a human-manufactured dilemma. After a battle in which both […]
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