What You’ll Love about… Antigone by Sophocles

“Vocal Memnon, Thebes.” Licensed under Smithsonian Creative Commons Zero license.

Thanks to Sigmund Freud, Oedipus Rex is the most well-known play by Sophocles, but Antigone is his best and most interesting play. It seems to have made a lasting impression on Shakespeare. I would say that Antigone is the ancient Greek play that most closely reflects the values and sensibilities of Shakespeare’s body of work.