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
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Please limit yourself to 200-300 words and submit your comments no later than 24 hours before class begins on T3. Creon denied Polynices a proper burial and in order to maintain his credibility he had to uphold the law even when the unanticipated occurrence that Antigone defied him arose. 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. Explain the nature of Antigone's conflict and how she should resolve – if she can. Apr 6, 2012 - This is the last of three posts on The Theban Plays, a trilogy of Sophocles' tragedies Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, directed by Don Taylor, which was broadcast on BBC2 over three evenings of one week in September 1986 (and all three are Tony Selby as the guard (named Soldier in this version) who comes to report that the body of Polyneices has been buried is entertaining: he is full of bluster, garrulous and cheeky, but clearly terrified. Oct 18, 2007 - Next production from the Richmond Shakespeare Society is The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney's 21st century translation of Sophocles' Antigone. There is nothing in Sophocles' In Sophocles' Antigone, Creon politicizes the burial (or non-burial) of Polyneices. Feb 28, 2005 - Heaney won many awards for his recent translation of Beowulf. He institutionalizes what Antigone . His latest work translates the ancient Greek play Antigone by Sophocles. 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. Jan 9, 2013 - Occasional Writing for T3 – Sophocles, Antigone. Dec 3, 2008 - The issues of Sophocles' Antigone seemed, on that first morning, a world away from the upheaval on Wall Street. Mar 29, 2011 - Antigone's speeches are literally the first declaration of universal human rights in Western history; by having Antigone bury Polynices, Sophocles is putting her in the role of the Athenian state itself – one of the most cherished Athenian myths was the story of how Athens marched on Thebes not to conquer it but to compel the honorable burial of its enemies (the world's first international humanitarian intervention). 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.





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