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

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone



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He institutionalizes what Antigone . Dec 3, 2008 - The issues of Sophocles' Antigone seemed, on that first morning, a world away from the upheaval on Wall Street. Apr 26, 2013 - Similar to the classic Greek text, “The Burial of Thebes” is an adaptation of Sophocles' “Antigone,” which focuses on the conflict between individual rights and claims of the state. There is nothing in Sophocles' In Sophocles' Antigone, Creon politicizes the burial (or non-burial) of Polyneices. By Sophocles, translated by Seamus Heaney, directed by Chris McKay. Thebes may be the “anti-Athens,” but Athenians may nonetheless have seen what goes on in the stage version of Thebes in light of their own Athenian expectations. May 1, 2014 - Antigone: The Burial at Thebes (Furies) runs from April 30 – May 4 at the Tap Gallery. May 31, 2008 - Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney has tried his hand at translating from the Greek before, authoring a version of Sophocles' tragedy Philoctetes in 1990 under the title The Cure at Troy. With The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles' Antigone, Heaney once again shifts the emphasis away from the central character to tackle the moral questions at the heart of all of Sophocles' plays—the relationship between individual and society, family and state. Oct 18, 2007 - Next production from the Richmond Shakespeare Society is The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney's 21st century translation of Sophocles' Antigone.





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