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4 de dic. de 1991 · Book Details. 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 ...
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.
Seamus Heaney's version of 'Philoctetes' by Sophocles. The play, written in the fifth century B.C., sets before us 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.
134 CHORUSES FROM THE CURE AT TROY III. The Betrayal Exposed (Philoctetes is asleep.) CHORUS: Sleep is the god-sent cure. Deep-reaching, painless, sure. Its touch is certain. The light of paradise Creeps into sleepers' eyes As through a curtain. But you, sir, must wake up. Don't let this moment slip. Hold off no longer. Now that the coast is clear
The Cure at Troy. : Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Jan 28, 2014 - Drama - 96 pages. 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 ...
Books. The Cure at Troy. Seamus Heaney. Faber & Faber, Jan 16, 2018 - Drama - 88 pages. 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 ...
Director's Notes. Even before I had finished reading it—in a single breathless session— I knew I had to work on The Cure at Troy. Closely based on a play by Sophocles written 2400 years ago and adapted in 1990 by Seamus Heaney, a great contemporary poet, to emphasize themes that speak urgently to the needs of our times, it was more than I could resist.
