Oedipus and Chorus Leader
Antigone
By Sophocles; translated by Ian Johnston
Dramatis Personae (Fill in relationship information for each character listed.)
ANTIGONE: ________________________ ISMENE: ______________________________
CREON: ____________________________ EURYDICE: ___________________________
HAEMON: __________________________ TEIRESIAS: ___________________________
Polynieces: __________________________ Eteocles: ______________________________
Oedipus: Father of Antigone, Ismene, Polynices Jocasta: _______________________________ and Eteocles; son and husband to Jocasta
Prologue
[In Thebes, directly in front of the royal palace, which stands in the background, its main doors facing the audience. Enter Antigone leading Ismene away from the palace] ANTIGONE Now, dear Ismene, my own blood sister, do you have any sense of all the troubles Zeus keeps bringing on the two of us, as long as we’re alive? All that misery which stems from Oedipus? There’s no suffering, no shame, no ruin—not one dishonour— which I have not seen in all the troubles you and I go through. What’s this they’re saying now, something our general has had proclaimed throughout the city? Do you know of it? 10 Have you heard? Or have you just missed the news? Dishonours which better fit our enemies are now being piled up on the ones we love. ISMENE I’ve had no word at all, Antigone, nothing good or bad about our family, not since we two lost both our brothers, killed on the same day by a double blow. And since the Argive1 army, just last night, has gone away, I don’t know any more if I’ve been lucky or face total ruin.
By Sophocles; translated by Ian Johnston
Dramatis Personae (Fill in relationship information for each character listed.)
ANTIGONE: ________________________ ISMENE: ______________________________
CREON: ____________________________ EURYDICE: ___________________________
HAEMON: __________________________ TEIRESIAS: ___________________________
Polynieces: __________________________ Eteocles: ______________________________
Oedipus: Father of Antigone, Ismene, Polynices Jocasta: _______________________________ and Eteocles; son and husband to Jocasta
Prologue
[In Thebes, directly in front of the royal palace, which stands in the background, its main doors facing the audience. Enter Antigone leading Ismene away from the palace] ANTIGONE Now, dear Ismene, my own blood sister, do you have any sense of all the troubles Zeus keeps bringing on the two of us, as long as we’re alive? All that misery which stems from Oedipus? There’s no suffering, no shame, no ruin—not one dishonour— which I have not seen in all the troubles you and I go through. What’s this they’re saying now, something our general has had proclaimed throughout the city? Do you know of it? 10 Have you heard? Or have you just missed the news? Dishonours which better fit our enemies are now being piled up on the ones we love. ISMENE I’ve had no word at all, Antigone, nothing good or bad about our family, not since we two lost both our brothers, killed on the same day by a double blow. And since the Argive1 army, just last night, has gone away, I don’t know any more if I’ve been lucky or face total ruin.