The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

by Sophocles and Seamus Heaney

Book Overview

In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374530076
• ISBN13: 9780374530075
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.6"