The burial at Thebes

a version of Sophocles' Antigone

1st American ed.
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The burial at Thebes

a version of Sophocles' Antigone

1st American ed.
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"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.

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English
Pages
79

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Cover of: The Burial at Thebes
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
October 13, 2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: The Burial at Thebes
The Burial at Thebes
March 4, 2004, Faber and Faber
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The burial at Thebes
The burial at Thebes: a version of Sophocles' Antigone
2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: The burial at Thebes
The burial at Thebes: a version of Sophocles' Antigone
2004, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: The Burial at Thebes
The Burial at Thebes
March 4, 2004, Faber and Faber
Hardcover in English - Limited Ed edition

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Edition Notes

Originally published: Great Britain: Faber and Faber, 2004.

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New York
Genre
Drama

The Physical Object

Pagination
79 p. ;
Number of pages
79

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23273259M
ISBN 10
0374117217
LCCN
2004043986
LibraryThing
330007
Goodreads
834606

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OL1810097W

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