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ANTIGONE But I know that, to those who matter most, I’m doing the right thing. ISMENE If you even get that far! You’re bent on the impossible. 90 ANTIGONE When my strength fails, I’ll stop. ISMENE You shouldn’t be chasing the impossible in the first place! ANTIGONE Say another word and you will earn my hatred.
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SOPHOCLES (496?-406 B.C.) Antigone. An English Version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Person Represented. ANTIGONE ISMENE EURYDICE CREON HAIMON TEIRESIAS. A SENTRY. A MESSENGER CHORUS. SCENE: Before the Palace of Creon, King of Thebes. A central double door, and two lateral doors.
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Download: A 64k text-only version is available for download . Antigone By Sophocles Written 442 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb.
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The 'Antigone' of Sophocles - which follows his 'Oedipus the King' and 'Oedipus at Colonus' - seems, at first glance, to be concerned with the conflict between Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, and Creon, the new ruler of the
Antigone(ca. 441 B.C.E.) By Sophocles (city-state of Athens, present-day Greece) Translated from the Greek by Robert Fagles. CHARACTERS. ANTIGONE. daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. ISMENE. sister of Antigone. A CHORUS.
ANTIGONE: Go away, Ismene: shall be hating you soon, and the dead will too, For your words are hateful. Leave me my foolish plan: am not afraid of the danger; if it means death, It will not be the worst of deaths—death without honor. 190 ANTIGONE. ismene: Go then, if you feel that you must.
Download and distribute this free translation of Sophocles' Antigone, a classic Greek tragedy about a woman who defies the law of Creon to bury her brother. The PDF includes the translator's note, background note, dramatis personae, and the full text of the play.
