The Burial At Thebes Av Seamus Heaney

<p>Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, <i>The Burial at Thebes</i> is Seamus Heaney''s new verse translation of Sophocles'' great tragedy, <i>Antigone</i> - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in Western drama. Faithful to the play''s time and place, <i>The Burial at Thebes</i> represents opposing voices as they enact the ancient conflict between family and state in a time of crisis, pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service.<br><br>Above all, <i>The Burial at Thebes</i> honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of the Antigone, in which language speaks truth to power, then and now.</p>