The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles'

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney, Sophocles

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles ebook
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page: 88
ISBN: 9780374530075
Format: pdf

Oct 11, 2010 - Heaney's version is entitled The Burial at Thebes. When Seamus Heaney was invited to When Heaney undertook his own version of the play, renaming it The Burial at Thebes (2004), he had arrived at a solution to the dangers of staleness and repetition—a mingling of poetry and politics. Mar 26, 2013 - The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 79 pages with vast amounts of white space. Tragedy about a violent confrontation between a defiant young woman and an arrogant ruler, was one of the most widely adapted plays in Ireland. You can feel virtuous without much effort. I found this to be a fresh, fast-paced, and a very poetic and lyrical modern translation. Oct 8, 2009 - In the struggle, Polyneices led seven armies against Thebes, and died as a traitor. After Creon took the throne, Eteocles was given a full burial, while Polyneices was left to rot. Now king again, Creon – uncle to Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices – decrees that Eteocles will be buried with full honors but Polyneices will not, because he was a traitor who attacked his own city. Oct 25, 2013 - By 2003, Sophocles' Antigone, a fifth century B.C. Aug 22, 2005 - 822.914 HEANEY The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone / Seamus Heaney. Nov 8, 2013 - The action is this: brothers Eteocles and Polyneices have done battle for the kingship of Thebes, and both have been killed, Eteocles within the city walls and Polyneices, attacking from without.