![]() ![]() Gates of the court, that thou mightest hear alone. To me, since we two sisters were bereft of brothers twain, killed in oneĭay by twofold blow and since in this last night the Argive host hathįled, know no more, whether my fortune be brighter, or more grievous.ĪNTIGONE I knew it well, and therefore sought to bring thee beyond the ISMENE No word of friends, Antigone, gladsome or painful, hath come Or is it hidden from thee that our friends are threatened with the doom Hath just published to all Thebes? Knowest thou aught? Hast thou heard? Shame, no dishonour, that I have not seen in thy woes andĪnd now what new edict is this of which they tell, that our Captain While we live? Nothing painful is there, nothing fraught with ruin, no ![]() There is, of all bequeathed by Oedipus, that Zeus fulfils not for us twain ANTIGONE calls ISMENE forth from the palace, in order to speak to her alone.ĪNTIGONE Ismene, sister, mine own dear sister, knowest thou what ill ![]() The time is at daybreak on the morning after the fall of the two brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, and the flight of the defeated Argives. The backscene represents the front of the palace, with three doors, of which the central and largest is the principal entrance into the house. The same as in Oedipus the King, an open space before the royal palace, once that of Oedipus, at Thebes. GUARD, set to watch the corpse of Polyneices ![]()
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