Antigone’s defiance of King Creon’s edict that her brother Polynices’ body must lie unburied might be a spur to French resistance. In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs.

Oedipus does not believe Teiresias and feels that Creon, Jocasta's brother, is behind this. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of ...

On her return to songwriting, Eiko Ishibashi provides an elusive soundtrack to the end of the world as we know it on ...

No one more starkly captured those characteristics and their consequences than Sophocles, most notably in his masterpiece, Antigone. At the heart of its drama lies Thebes’ new king, Creon ...

Teiresias is a blind prophet who may be able to answer who killed King Laius. Oedipus begs Teiresias to help reveal who the killer is and help lift the plague. A curse has taken a hold of Thebes ...