{"product_id":"the-burial-at-thebes","title":"The Burial at Thebes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, \"The Burial at Thebes\" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, \"Antigone\" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"review-group\" aria-labelledby=\"review-1\" role=\"group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"rm-content_1\" data-readmore-state=\"closed\" data-toggle-less-aria-label=\"Read less About the Author for The Burial at Thebes\" data-toggle-more-aria-label=\"Read more About the Author for The Burial at Thebes\" class=\"readmore-toggle\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"review-1\" class=\"review-title\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"review-body\" class=\"review-body\"\u003eSeamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1996) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1999)....\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"readmore\"\u003e\n\u003ca data-clicked=\"false\" data-readmore=\"anchor\" aria-label=\"Read more About the Author for The Burial at Thebes\" aria-controls=\"rm-content_1\" class=\"link-popover\" id=\"rm-more_1\" role=\"button\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003eMore\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"review-group\" aria-labelledby=\"review-2\" role=\"group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"rm-content_2\" data-readmore-state=\"open\" data-toggle-less-aria-label=\"Read less From Booklist for The Burial at Thebes\" data-toggle-more-aria-label=\"Read more From Booklist for The Burial at Thebes\" class=\"readmore-toggle\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 id=\"review-2\" class=\"review-title\"\u003eFrom Booklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-test-id=\"review-body\" class=\"review-body\"\u003e*Starred Review* There are many translations of Sophocles'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntigone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebut few with the understated power and spare beauty of Irish Nobel laureate Heaney's version. He has given the play a new title,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Burial at Thebes,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethat recalls both Antigone's punishment--to be walled up in a cave-- and the crime for which she is punished. He remains faithful to the letter and the spirit of the play, following the structure of Sophocles' fine storytelling beat-by-beat even as he finds words to make this classic story of conflict between an inflexible autocrat and an intransigent rebel legible to modern readers. Reading Heaney's achievement, it is hard not to think of the ongoing eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye debacle unfolding in Iraq. Written in a muscular but lively style, the translation, like Heaney's best poetry, finds music in the language of the streets and reveals the raw, primal power in the most carefully constructed rhetorical tropes. This is hardly surprising. In 1990 Heaney wrote\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cure at Troy,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea translation of Sophocles'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efor the Irish Field Day theater company, and met with great critical acclaim. His fine, new translation makes one wish he would don a translator's hat more often.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJack Helbig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FABER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51230038130869,"sku":"saeed \u0026 samir","price":0.5,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/4280\/4149\/files\/9780571223626-us.jpg?v=1750155057","url":"https:\/\/saeedandsamir.com\/en\/products\/the-burial-at-thebes","provider":"مكتبة سعيد وسمير | أكبر موسوعة كتب ورقية في الكويت","version":"1.0","type":"link"}