The Cure at Troy
$34.19
- Paperback
88 pages
- Release Date
23 January 2018
Summary
Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’s Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes’s invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help.
The Cure at Troy dramatizes the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency, and explores ways in which the victims of injustice can become as devote…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571327652 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571327656 |
| Author: | Seamus Heaney |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 23 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Faber Drama |
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About The Author
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.
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