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The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles' 'Antigone'.

Signed limited first edition of Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes

Seamus HeaneySeamus Justin Heaney, 1939–2013
Limited first edition. 8vo. Pp. [ix], 56. Quarter-bound maroon cloth over fawn paper-boards, titled in gilt to spine on a black cloth strip; rust-orange endpapers. The limited edition, as issued, in matching maroon cloth and paper slipcase, and still in the publisher's sealed brown paper wrapping. 1/250 specially bound numbered copies signed by Heaney to the limitation page, out of a total edition of 260.
A verse translation of Sophocles' fifth century B.C. tragedy, Antigone, commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and where it premiered on March 31st, 2004. Partly inspired by Bush and Blair's 2003 war on Iraq – in particular the argument that you are either for state security or an advocate of terrorism – Heaney's version adroitly parries a Hegelian dialectic between the individual and the state, as language ceaselessly speaks truth to power. Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
special feature
signed
edition
first edition
format
hardback, limited edition
scarcity
scarce
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
2004
ISBN
0571224083
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
quarter cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
mint
of jacket
mint
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