The Burial At Thebes Sophocles Antigone

كتاب The Burial At Thebes Sophocles Antigone
المؤلف: Seamus Heaney

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004 , The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse trans- lation 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 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 This book is another example of how lucky our language is to have Seamus Heaney working in it . ' Daily Telegraph ' Heaney has found a way to make the play address the great contemporary themes without being didactic ... It is resonant with glimpses of today's conflict , yet it remains a classic whose key themes are timeless . " Sunday Times