by Seamus Heaney · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571162307
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«The Cure at Troy» is Seamus Heaney's play, a version of «Philoctetes», published by Faber & Faber in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Seamus Heaney rewrites Sophocles' «Philoctetes» to explore the relationship between private morality and public action: the play pits personal principles against political pragmatism and shows how victims of injustice can become as absorbed by their pain as those responsible are by justifying their conduct.
The play corresponds to the 1990 production by the Field Day Theatre Company; this edition is from 2002.
For readers of poetry, classical drama and Greek mythology, and for those interested in the work of Seamus Heaney.
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
