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Accursed Thebes, Is't not enough thy guilty soil hath drunk So many princes bloods, but after death Unto their Ghosts thou still shouldst prove a foe, And bar what nature, and all laws bestow? Go sue to Thebes, perchance the sighs, and tears Of weeping queen's may move the tyrants heart: Do not expose your life to such and hazard. Cease widows longer in that strain To wail, or against the fates complain For funeral rites; but understand Great Theseus, whose victorious hand In conquests never yet has failed, Is he, with whom we have prevailed For aid; and think what Actium He undertakes, already done. He will revenge on Creon's head The wrongs that we have suffered. Our deer Lords Ghosts shall righted be. Then join your voices all me, And in triumphant songs let us Renown the noble Theseus. Against a far worse monster now The noble Theseus arms to go, Inhumane Creon, that denies To worthiest souls endue obsequyes, And, what those monsters would not do, Does after death his hate pursue. Procrustes that inhuman thief (Monster of nature passed belief) That made all passengers, whom he Surprised within the woods, to be By and unheard of cruel sport Stretched longer out, or else cut short, To fit their stature to his bed, By Theseus hand was conquered, And doomed then himself to die By the same kind of cruelty. What other course is left us?
Plot summary
Plot — Antigone, the Theban Princess
Self-blinded and banished from Thebes, Oedipus wishes only for death. His daughter Antigone temporarily persuades him to give up such thoughts, but it is not long before he is dead. Thebes itself is at war: Eteocles has dishonoured a power-sharing agreement with his brother Polynices, and seven Greek champions have besieged the city in support of the latter’s claim. After sustaining heavy casualties, Polynices proposes settling the case in single combat with Eteocles. Both are killed. The new King, Creon, decrees that no Theban shall bury any enemy soldier, including Polynices. He also places Antigone under house arrest and refuses his son Haemon permission to marry her. In defiance of Creon, Antigone goes to the battlefield in search of Polynices’ body. There she meets his widow, Argia, and together they convey the corpse past the watchmen and give it a funeral. Creon too comes to the battlefield, to consult the witches who are gathering Parts of the dead bodies for magical use. They make a dead body tell his fortune: he will die soon, and disorder will come to Thebes. Antigone and Argia are arrested. Creon holds Argia, a foreign princess, for ransom, but sentences Antigone to be entombed alive and left to starve to death. By threatening to take his own life, Haemon persuades his father to allow her release, but it is too late: she has taken poison to hasten her death. Haemon kills himself. Thebes is attacked by Theseus, who has been summoned by another widow to intervene for the unburied. Argia is released and Creon killed, but Theseus allows him the burial he denied his enemies.