The Burial at Thebes

Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist ! his first collection of poems! appeared in 1966! and was followed by poetry! criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature! and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year! for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones ! a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll! appeared in 2008; Human Chain ! his last volume of poems! was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. Klappentext First staged in the fifth century BC, Antigone stands as a timeless inquisition into human fallibility and our refusal to learn frrom the mistakes of the past. Translated by Seamus Heaney. The Burial at Thebes , by Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, is a new verse translation of Sophocles' great classical tragedy Antigone . Zusammenfassung Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama.

Préface
The Burial at Thebes, by Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, is a new verse translation of Sophocles' great classical tragedy Antigone.

Auteur
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.

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First staged in the fifth century BC, Antigone stands as a timeless inquisition into human fallibility and our refusal to learn frrom the mistakes of the past. Translated by Seamus Heaney.

Résumé
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama.