Antigone - Large Print Edition: A Play

This tragedy by Sophocles was written around 441 BCE, and while it was written first, chronologically it is the third of the three Theban plays.

Antigone and Ismene daughters of Oedipus, are sisters of two dead brothers who died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new King determines that one brother, Eteocles will be honored, but Polyneices will be publicly shamed and left to rot on the battlefield without the holy rites.

Antigone defies Creon and buries her brother, which lea...