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

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone


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The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone Seamus Heaney, Sophocles
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux



Oct 3, 2011 - The foundation of this searing production is Seamus Heaney's lucid and probing adaptation of Sophocles's Antigone. Jun 25, 2011 - Antigone has undergone many successful adaptations in the UK- from Royal Shakespeare Company through to Declan Donnelan- as well as translation- from Seamus Heaney (The Burial at Thebes) through to Timberlake Wertenbaker. Oct 31, 2013 - The play is “Antigone,” written by Sophocles and translated often in the years since. His latest work translates the ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles. The brothers Creon ordered that Eteocles be given a proper burial, while the body of Polyneices should be left in the field. It was the third in his series of Theban plays. 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. Antigone's determination to fulfill her familial duty to bury her brother, killed in war, puts her at odds with Creon, the ruler of Thebes. Feb 28, 2005 - Heaney won many awards for his recent translation of Beowulf. Sep 24, 2012 - This year's festival features a modernized take on Sophocles' Antigone, drawing parallels to modern political happenings like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movements, as well as the importance of social media to those causes. The modern version was written by Jean Anouilh during World War II as a strong but subtle message to French Resistance fighters. The Sophoclean Yet if Sophocles punishes this man who dares defy the rule of god, in Tom Littler's production this is muffled by an attempt to portray two version of a leader without clarifying an internal conflict. Antigone and Polyneices, 1865, Nikiforos Lytras (1832-1904) 2. Feb 13, 2014 - I recently read Sophocles's Antigone[1] in the Classical Readings course that I'm enrolled in as part of Rosemont College's MFA in Creative Writing Program. Jan 2, 2012 - Sophocles' Antigone. Mar 15, 2012 - I want to make a brief comment on the connection between the etymology of the name 'Antigone' and notions of 'Justice' in The Burial at Thebes. There are various versions of the Greek etymology of 'Antigone'. Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) wrote Antigone no later than 442 B.C. From the first moment to the last, director Marcela Lorca keeps Burial at Thebes taut and compelling.





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