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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
Format: pdf
Page: 88
ISBN: 9780374530075
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Oct 8, 2011 - The Burial at Thebes is a translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Irish poet Seamus Haeney. Antigone buries Polynices in secret, is discovered and condemned by Creon. In Greek mythology, Antigone is a daughter of Oedipus (you remember him - the one who killed his father and married his mother). Nov 5, 2010 - This is an important detail because both brothers died in the fighting, and into the power vacuum stepped Kreon (literally “ruler”), who is now trying to right the ship of state in Thebes. May 4, 2014 - Anderson and his librettist, playwright Frank McGuinness, have compressed Sophocles' three Theban plays (Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) into a compactly dramatic two hour opera. Here's his problem: both Antigone, sister of both dead hotheads, openly defies Kreon and the state, burying Polyneikes and accepting a death sentence, because she insists that the natural law- the will of God- is higher than the needs of the state or society. Nov 21, 2006 - The brother of Oedipus, Creon, and uncle of Antigone was now the undisputed master of the city and resolving to make an example of the brother who had fought against him refused the right of honorable burial to Polynices. Jan 30, 2007 - Exploring current political issues through an ancient lens, The Eleventh Hour Theater Company presents a topical but tepid production of Seamus Heaney's translation of Sophocles' Antigone, entitled The Burial at Thebes. Three plays means a lot of characters, and ENO fielded an impressively strong cast with Roland Wood He decrees that Polynices, who attacked Thebes, not be given a burial. Jul 3, 2013 - Seamus Heaney brings his skill of translation to the ancient Greek tragedy, "Antigone," first written by dramatist Sophocles in the 4th century BC.