The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone - Seamus Heaney

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 Sophocl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...

DescriptionThe timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles--Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--have fascinated and moved audiences an...

Reducere. The three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences t...

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama...

Reducere. This new translation of Sophocles' Antigone, one of the cornerstones of Ancient Greek Tragedy, is meant to satisfy several parameters: (i) above al...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation - Diane J. Rayor

Reducere. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of Oedipus the ...

Reducere. DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.Forensic detective Lincoln Rhyme is back with his most harrowing case yet in this newest installment of Jeff...

DescriptionThe gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions. Desperate to gain control over a city rav...

Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-...

Reducere. Protean, erotic, scatological and experimental, Picasso's poetry is finally compiled in this essential anthologyPablo Picasso is arguably the most ...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

Reducere. DescriptionOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he ...

Reducere. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself...

He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander...

With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's ...

DescriptionSophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and ...

Reducere. The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New Y...

A collection of Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney's prose over three decades. Essays and lectures including }Preoccupations, The Government Of The Tong...

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes appar...

An updated edition of Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, which has been expanded to include pieces from his two most recent collections; Seeing...

Paperback edition of the Nobel Prize winning Heaney's 12th collection of poems, which won the Forward Poetry Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience...

First published in 1978, this work contains poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the ...

"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial ad...

The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circu...

This book combines historicizing scholarship with analytical depth and insightful new readings of Heaney's work. The thematic sections offer differ...

Reducere. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along wit...

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature...

Heaney's final work was a unique take on Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, following the Troy exile and Rome founder's descent into the underworld. Heane...

Reducere. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventu...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roy FosterNumber of pages: 248Collection: Writers on WritersPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 112 x...

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an int...

Including a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the...