The Burial At Thebes by Seamus Heaney
A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
When a new ruler forbids the burial of a slain rebel, a young woman’s refusal to accept the edict—grounded in familial duty and divine law—escalates into a collision between private conscience and public authority; her steadfast defiance, the pleas of a grieving fiancé, and the ignored warnings of a seer produce a chain of suicides and a ruler’s bitter reckoning, exposing themes of pride, justice, gender and the catastrophic cost of inflexible power in a stark, lyrical idiom.
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- Published
- 2004
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- Irish
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- Original Language
- English
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