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    The Truth about A
    The Truth about A
    The Truth about A
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    The Truth about A

    By Maureen O'Shaughnessy

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    In his interpretation of Antigone, Seamus Heaney says, ‘Nobody can be sure they are always right.’ Maureen O’Shaughnessy’s The Truth about A further attends to this idea through various readings of the myth as portrayed by Sophocles, Brecht, Ted Hughes, Anne Carson and, most particularly, Euripides. Set

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateJun 2, 2017
    ISBN9781760413606
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