Thursday, January 18, 2007

Locus classicus ...

... Seamus Heaney and Latin.

A few years ago, I attended at performance opf Heaney's Antigone at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. I was not impressed. He took something timeless and made it shallowly topical. A far, far better modern treatment is Jean Anouilh's.

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