Antigone

Antigone's father — the predecessor tragedy that explains the curse hanging over Antigone's family and defines what hubris and fate mean in Sophocles's world

Another drama about individual conscience against institutional authority — Miller explicitly modeled John Proctor's death on Antigone's logic: some things are worth dying for

The other great Greek female protagonist who defies the social order — where Antigone acts from principle, Medea acts from passion; both terrify audiences for different reasons

Thomas More's refusal to validate Henry VIII's divorce mirrors Antigone's structure exactly — a principled individual against absolute state authority, dying for a law the state doesn't recognize

Creon's position — the king whose authority must be absolute for the city to function — finds its most articulate English defence in Henry V's arguments about obedience and kingship

King's argument that unjust laws have no moral authority — and that the individual has not only the right but the duty to disobey them — is the same argument Antigone makes to Creon across 2,500 years