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

79 pages with vast amounts of white space. The play fuses the traditions of Greek theatre with relevant, modern themes. A Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's rewrite of Antigone, the classical play by Sophocles. You can feel virtuous without much effort. Jul 14, 2013 - Antigone, on which The Burial At Thebes is based, is a play about how states infringe on personal liberties in order to ensure that law and order is maintained. Written around 441 B.C., of A Burial at Thebes. Dec 4, 2013 - “A Burial at Thebes” Review. May 10, 2012 - Book 143: Antigone by Sophocles. Aug 2, 2012 - Antigone embraces death in defence of the body's right to receive burial and Creon leads his family and the city of Thebes to ruin by neglecting this right. Patten, head of the Upper School English department, read an Irish poem that inspired Seamus Heaney's edition of the play. This fact already confirms that death occupies a central place in the tragedy. Nov 1, 2005 - The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney (Paperback) drop shipping supplies at wholesale price from United Kingdom wholesale drop shippers. For this year's fall play, the Upper School went back to the roots of culture and theatre. Aug 22, 2005 - 822.914 HEANEY The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone / Seamus Heaney. 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. "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's retelling of "Antigone" a play written two-and-a-half thousand years ago by Sophocles. Oct 3, 2011 - Heaney believes that tension between speech and silence is central to the play. Apr 19, 2012 - Sophocles' Antigone brings to the stage tragic expressions of human conflict.