Seamus Heaney 's version Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. Ako conflict prichádza do klimaxu, rieky začínajú realizovať ich cannot win the trójsky vojna bez Philoctetes's invincible luk, a turn back to seek jeho pomoc . ktoré victims injustice môže byť ako devoted to contemplation their wounds ako perpetrators are to justification of their system. Responsive to greek playwright's understanding of relations between public and private morality, The Cure at Troy is a sharp, fast-paced retelling of the Greek original, shot cez Heaney's own Írsky speech a context.History says, Nechcem hop bok the grave.But then, once in a lifetimeLonged-for tidal waveOf spravodlivosti môže rise up,And hope and history rhyme.