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

Haemon The play Antigone tells about Thebes, a principal city in the valley of southern Boeotia, between north of the Cithaeron Mountains and southeast of Lake Copaïs (Copais), Central Greece. Sons have to leave their parents and chose for love. Jan 4, 2007 - A fascinating debate from classical literature that rages on today is the question of who was in the right in Sophocles' Antigone. One of the plays, Antigone, When Creon discovers Antigone is behind the secret burial, she doesn't deny his inquiry. It was ruled by Sophocles could have created another version, to teach the people that love has the highest value and puts the duty to obey his father on the second place. Dec 8, 2010 - Sophocles wrote the three Theban plays, a collection that has survived centuries, and for good reason. 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. Jun 17, 2012 - The Antigone is, more than most, a modern drama, re-interpreted by, among others, Jean Anouilh, whose 1944 version addressed the Nazi occupation under which it was produced, Jean Cocteau, Bertolt Brecht, and Seamus Heaney, who Sophocles's Antigone, the earliest of his Theban plays, is also the work which most clearly shows the concern with balance between parallel and conflicting forces which informs all his plays and his approach to drama in general. 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. 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. May 9, 2013 - Antigone_Terzakis_Theodorakis_Sophocles. Both Antigone and her uncle, the king of Thebes, Creon, believed that they were doing what was best – Antigone's burial of her brother Polyneices and Creon's refusal to and subsequent condemnation of his niece. Apr 25, 2008 - Company B's presentation of ANTIGONE, a version of Sophocles' play by Seamus Heaney, is a beautiful version which Heaney alternatively called THE BURIAL AT THEBES.