Title: This is a delightful rendering of a classic drama
Product review: Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He rewrites the fifth century Greek Sophocles' masterpiece Antigone in very readable modern English poetry. The story focuses on the never resolved conflict between a person's rights and the needs of the state. Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, hears that the king refuses to bury one of her brothers because the king feels that he was treacherous. She expresses her disagreement and the king contemns her to death. The book can be read easily even by people unfamiliar with Greek tragedies. People should know Sophocles' story because it is an interesting drama and because modern writers and film-makers have repeatedly copied its theme with sometimes very little variations.
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