The Burial at Thebes - Hardcover

Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571223613 ISBN 13: 9780571223619

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2004

Synopsis

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 Heaney's Sophoclean original, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now.

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Review:

Praise for Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf: "
"Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." --James Wood, "The Guardian"
Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem. "James Wood, The Guardian on Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf""

"Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless--stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." --James Wood, The Guardian on Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf

Book Description:

The Burial at Thebes, by Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, is a new verse translation of Sophocles' great classical tragedy Antigone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0571223613
• ISBN 13: 9780571223619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64