The Burial at Thebes
Edition: Limited Ed edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: March 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780571224081
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Antigone; Sophocles
Description: "Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama. Faithful to the 'local row' and to the fierce specificity of the play's time and place, The Burial at Thebes honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices, as they enact the ancient but perennial conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service. Above all, The Burial at Thebes honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of the Antigone, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now."--BOOK JACKET.