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

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone


The.Burial.at.Thebes.A.Version.of.Sophocles.Antigone.pdf
ISBN: 9780374530075 | 88 pages | 3 Mb


Download The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone



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



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. For starters, the main issue of the play is that the king of Thebes, Creon, doesn't want anyone to honour his son Polynices by burying him because he died a traitor attacking his own city. Apr 19, 2012 - Sophocles' Antigone brings to the stage tragic expressions of human conflict. The play is difficult to translate into the modern day. May 10, 2012 - Book 143: Antigone by Sophocles. There is nothing in Sophocles' In Sophocles' Antigone, Creon politicizes the burial (or non-burial) of Polyneices. He institutionalizes what Antigone . Oct 12, 2011 - A twist in this version is that Créon is not certain and does not care which body is lying on the pavement, and decided it would be Polynices. May 1, 2014 - Antigone: The Burial at Thebes (Furies) runs from April 30 – May 4 at the Tap Gallery. Oct 8, 2009 - In the struggle, Polyneices led seven armies against Thebes, and died as a traitor. After Creon took the throne, Eteocles was given a full burial, while Polyneices was left to rot. Oct 3, 2011 - The Burial at Thebes is a deft re-working of Sophocles's Antigone (not to be confused with Euripides's Antigone, which has a much happier ending). Antigone, now 'Anne', is consumed by a desire to bury her disgraced brother, Polynices – now 'Pol'. By Sophocles, translated by Seamus Heaney, directed by Chris McKay. Ears in a project that in itself sounds like a game of Consequences: an opera adapted from Heaney's The Burial at Thebes, a version of Sophocles' Antigone, to be directed by Walcott and staged at Shakespeare's Globe. Feb 14, 2013 - This version moves Sophocles' Antigone from Ancient Greece to the 2011 London riots. Rock on If you're interested, do check out Seamus Heaney's version of Antigone, "The Burial at Thebes". The entire Theban Plays collection is amazing, though. Dec 3, 2008 - The issues of Sophocles' Antigone seemed, on that first morning, a world away from the upheaval on Wall Street.





Download The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone for ipad, android, reader for free
Buy and read online The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone book
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone ebook pdf epub rar djvu mobi zip