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Buy this book on-line HEANEY,SEAMUS - Translated by: : The Burial at Thebes [Sophocles' Antigone]LONDON.FABER AND FABER LIMITED,2004. ISBN 0574223613.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.
Commissioned to mark the centenary (2004) of the Abbey Theatre,Dublin.] NFINE/VG+.No
owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.
Bright,clean,matt laminated,black+gold
silhouette(?)/fragmented artwork design by
Jan Hendrix,illustrated front panel of dw/dj (thumbnail/vignette of same design without text titles repeated to rear
panel),with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to
edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+bottom edges creased with some laminate partially lifting,to
front bottom edges.Top edges bright but with a tiny splash/stain,fore-edges bright
and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any
pages' corners,appears unread - apart from
my own collation.However,an accidental small diagonal crease to bottom corner of pp39/40 and the following page too.Then a further accidental,unintentional,vertical diagonal creasing to page edges of the remaining pages of the text block,right through to the rear free endpaper.Bright,
crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - lower front corner with smallest of dinks excepted,
publisher's original plain black paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt
letters to spine/backstrip,a red+yellow striped headband and near immaculate plain
black eps - rear ffe also excepted (aforementioned creasing).UK,slim 8vo HB+
dw/dj,1st edn,1-56 [paginated] includes play's translation/script,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,
dedication,and Dramatis Personae list.
'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.
Faithful to the 'local row' and to the fierce specificity of the play's time and place,'The Burial at Thebes' honours the separate and irreconcilable claims of its opposed voices,as they enact the ancient but perennial conflict between family and state in a time of crisis,pitching the morality of private allegiance against that of public service.Above all,'The Burial at Thebes' honours the sovereign urgency and grandeur of the Antigone,in which language speaks truth to power,then and now.
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