If thou proclaim not these things to all. ISMENE: At least, then, disclose this plan to none, but hide it closely,-andĪNTIGONE Oh, denounce it! Thou wilt be far more hateful for thy silence, ISMENE Alas, unhappy one! How I fear for thee!ĪNTIGONE Fear not for me: guide thine own fate aright. ISMENE I do them no dishonour but to defy the State,-I have no strengthĪNTIGONE Such be thy plea:-I, then, will go to heap the earth above But if thou wilt, be guilty of dishonouring laws which Longer allegiance to the dead than to the living: in that world I shallĪbide for ever. Loved one with him whom I have loved, sinless in my crime for I owe a Nay, be what thou wilt īut I will bury him: well for me to die in doing that. Mind, wouldst thou be welcome as a worker with me. forĪNTIGONE I will not urge thee,-no nor, if thou yet shouldst have the Seeing that force is put on me herein, will hearken to our rulers. I, therefore, asking the Spirits Infernal to pardon, We are ruled of the stronger, so that we must obey in these things, and That we were born women, as who should not strive with men next, that Law, we brave a king's decree or his powers. Shall perish, more miserably than all the rest, if, in defiance of the And now we in turn-we two left all alone think how we Shedding, hapless one, a kinsman's blood,-wrought out with mutual hands Noose did despite unto her life and last, our two brothers in one day,-each

With self-blinding hand then the mother wife, two names in one, with twisted Scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him to strike both eyes ISMENE Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and ISMENE Ah, over-bold! when Creon hath forbidden?ĪNTIGONE Nay, he hath no right to keep me from mine own. ISMENE Thou wouldst bury him,-when 'tis forbidden to Thebes?ĪNTIGONE I will do my part,-and thine, if thou wilt not,-to a brother. ISMENE In what venture? What can be thy meaning?ĪNTIGONE Wilt thou aid this hand to lift the dead? ISMENE Poor sister,-and if things stand thus, what could I help toĪNTIGONE Consider if thou wilt share the toil and the deed. It now and thou wilt soon show whether thou art nobly bred, or the base In aught, his doom is death by stoning before all the folk. To those who know it not nor counts the matter light, but, whoso disobeys Such, 'tis said, is the edict that the good Creon hath set forthįor thee and for me,-yes, for me,-and is coming hither to proclaim it clearly Unwept, unsepulchred, a welcome store for the birds, as they espy him, But the hapless corpse of Polyneices-as rumour saith, it hathīeen published to the town that none shall entomb him or mourn, but leave Of right and custom, he hath laid in the earth, for his honour among theĭead below. ISMENE What is it? 'Tis plain that thou art brooding on some darkĪNTIGONE What, hath not Creon destined our brothers, the one to honouredīurial, the other to unburied shame? Eteocles, they say, with due observance 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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