27. Stephen Wilmer (Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Finding a Post-colonial Voice for Antigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes

In his programme note for the recent production at the Abbey Theatre of Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney identifies two imperialist targets for his version of Antigone: Britain and the United States. In my paper I will discuss the postcolonial discourse implicit (and at times explicit) in his translation and also in the production directed by the Québecoise Lorraine Pintal.

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