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Saturday, April 14, 2018

The answering voice: Irish poets rewrite the classics

Most readers will have noticed the multiplication of new versions of GREEK tragedy on the Irish stage in the past few decades. Most will have heard of Seamus Heaney's line “And hope and history rhyme”, which is from The Cure at Troy, his version of Sophocles's Philoctetes, being used by politicians ...


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