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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
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by Seamus Heaney (Translator); Sophocles

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In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

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In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides of the battle. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. While Creon eventually agrees to Antigone's release, it is too late: She takes her own life, initiating a tragic repetition of events in her family's history.

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  • Title The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
  • Author Seamus Heaney (Translator); Sophocles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NEW YORK
  • Publication date 2005-11-01
  • ISBN 9780374530075 / 0374530076
  • Weight 0.26 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.57 x 5.22 x 0.27 in (21.77 x 13.26 x 0.69 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Sophocles, Thebes (Greece)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.914

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  • Ingram Advance, 11/01/2005, Page 99

About the author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
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