The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

by Seamus Heaney
The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

by Seamus Heaney

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Overview

The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on the island of Lemnos and forgot about until the closing stages of the Siege of Troy. Abandoned because of a wounded foot, Philoctetes nevertheless possesses an invincible bow without which the Greeks cannot win the Trojan War. They are forced to return to Lemnos and seek out Philoctetes' support in a drama that explores the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency.

Heaney's version of Philoctetes is a fast-paced, brilliant work ideally suited to the stage. Heaney holds on to the majesty of the Greek original, but manages to give his verse the flavor of Irish speech and context.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374522896
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 12/04/1991
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 412,439
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
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