A cura en troia/ Cure at Troy

seamus heaney

Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes is responsive to the Greek playwright's understanding of the relations between public and private morality. It dramatizes the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency and explores ways in which the victims of injustice can become as devoted to the contemplation of their wounded as the perpetrators are to the justification of their system. This play is the 1990 production of the Field Day Theatre Company.

Genres poetryplaysclassicsdramafictionmythologytheatretragedyirelandgreek mythology

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First published January 1,1990

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lemnos, troy,

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Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1990 by Xerais De Galicia Edicions
ISBN: 9788483022788
ASIN: 8483022788
Language: Spanish; Castilian

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Philoctetes

Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War. Philoctetes is also mentioned in Homers Iliad, Book 2, which describes his e...

About the author

seamus heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.