Prior to Nurse finding Antigone sneaking into the house:
Eteocles and Polynices both die after Polynices attacks the city.
Creon throws a royal funeral for King Eteocles and becomes King himself.
Creon sets Polynices' body to rot on a hill with guards standing around instructing the city that if anyone try to bury Polynices, they will be killed.
Antigone sneaks out to go bury her brother's body.
Anouilh adds more details as you read farther into the story. This lets the reader (or audience member) create ideas of the characters and develop the characters in their mind as they learn. This makes the story more interesting because people find things out with the characters in the play. It also makes it seem more realistic because you rarely know everything that is happening in real life.
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