Focuses on the literary figure Sophocles Antigone who seems to have taken on a life independent of the play in which she was first featured: Antigone (441 B.C.) She has since appeared in numerous other plays, operas, films, and even in comic books and songs, especially in the twentieth century: in drama alone, we see her in works from Brecht to Cocteau and Anouilh to Fugard and Heaney.