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The Burial at Thebes

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English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: The 21st century

    …striking instance of which was The Burial at Thebes (2004), which infused Sophocles’ Antigone with contemporary resonances. Although they had entered into a new millennium, writers seemed to find greater imaginative stimulus in the past than in the present and the future.

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