Here, Antigone has no slain brother. Instead, we join the story some years after the suicide of the girls' father – and amid ...

Antigone, the teenage heroine who gives the play her name, is a princess of the ruling house. Her parents are dead, and her two brothers have killed each other in a fight to control the kingdom.

In Sophocles’ tragic play Antigone, the title character will do anything to ensure that her late brother, Polyneices, gets a proper burial. Even though Polyneices is a power-hungry traitor who ...

After a bloody war for the city of Thebes, Antigone is forced to choose between honoring one of her fallen brothers with a proper burial or following the edict that he shall remain unburied. The new ...