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In this essay I am going to address, in detail, three key factors to help me contextualise the play Antigone. The three areas are as follows: i) The Context in which the play is set - the reason for the actual plot and the events that occur within the play. ii) The Context in which it was written - anything social, cultural or historical which may affect the way the play is written. iii) The Context in which it is performed - any factors which may change the way it will be performed. Before Sophocles, Antigone was a well know myth. Antigone told the story of how you should never betray the Gods; this was the moral of the story. The story was probably exaggerated like most myths, for example the modern myth of Robin Hood is based on a real story although the myth is far from the truth and this is similar...

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