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... Sophocles - The Theban Plays. Compare Creon in 'Oedipus Rex', 'Oedipus at Colonus', and 'Antigone'. How are his characteristics brought out in each play in terms of his actions, attitudes, relationships with other characters in the play and his place in the development of the plot? How have the dramatic and thematic concerns of each play governed Sophocles' portrait of Creon? By Luke Marsh English Literature Sophocles wrote Oedipus the King around 425 BC, Oedipus at Colonus in c.401 BC and Antigone in c.441BC. Thus, although Antigone appears to tell some of the story of 'what happened next,' it was not actually intended to act as a sequel, having no true unity of theme or treatment between them. Accordingly, it is noticeable that the representation of Creon depicted in Antigone is a very different character (and respective age) from that of the Creon in either of the other two plays. King Oedipus, chiefly concerns
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