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OEDIPUS It would be against the law not to tell us what we need to know, and it also shows no love for the city that raised you. TIRESIAS You don’t know what you are saying, and I don’t want to make the same mistake that… OEDIPUS We all beg you, for god’s sake, to tell us what you know. TIRESIAS You also don’t know what you are asking. I shall not reveal my dilemma, to say nothing of yours. OEDIPUS What do you mean Do you know something but won’t reveal it 330 You would rather betray and destroy the city TIRESIAS I will not cause either of us to suffer. So give it up! You won’t get anything from me. OEDIPUS You could drive a stone mad! Won’t you speak Or do you prefer being stubborn and silent TIRESIAS You blame me for being difficult, but you don’t see your own anger. OEDIPUS Who wouldn’t be angry, hearing how you despise your own city! 340 TIRESIAS Even though I reveal nothing, things will work themselves out. 20
OEDIPUS But shouldn’t you tell me about these things TIRESIAS Rage away, if you must, but I refuse to speak. OEDIPUS You’ve goaded me into telling you exactly what I think. You took part in the crime, although you didn’t kill him yourself. If you weren’t blind, you would probably have done that too. TIRESIAS Is that so 350 Then I tell you to keep your word and remember what you said: don’t speak to others or to me from this day on, because YOU are the unholy affliction on this land. OEDIPUS Can you stand there and shamelessly say that and think there will be no consequences Not for me. Blame the truth. TIRESIAS OEDIPUS Where does this “truth” come from Not from your craft. TIRESIAS From you. You force me to speak against my will. OEDIPUS What was it again I want to know exactly what you said. TIRESIAS Didn’t you understand Is this a test 360 21
Page 1 and 2: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Intro
Page 3 and 4: Sophocles was born at Colonus near
Page 5 and 6: his own destruction. There is the s
Page 7 and 8: First Performance: 6 th at Penn The
Page 9 and 10: A crowd led by Zeus’ PRIEST gathe
Page 11 and 12: PRIEST The news must be good; other
Page 13 and 14: CREON All those with the king died,
Page 15 and 16: And protect me from all harm. Just
Page 17 and 18: I forbid any citizen of this land o
Page 19: A man who’s not afraid to commit
Page 23 and 24: OEDIPUS You live in perpetual night
Page 25 and 26: TIRESIAS Nonsense Your parents thou
Page 27 and 28: I have nothing to say, Either to ag
Page 29 and 30: OEDIPUS It’s not wise to think yo
Page 31 and 32: OEDIPUS I don’t deny it. CREON Yo
Page 33 and 34: OEDIPUS All the same, I have to rul
Page 35 and 36: Anger hurts the angry man most of a
Page 37 and 38: death at his son’s hands. So much
Page 39 and 40: OEDIPUS Is he here now In the palac
Page 41 and 42: and killing my father Polybus, who
Page 43 and 44: Or touches what must not be touched
Page 45 and 46: JOCASTA What are you saying Oedipus
Page 47 and 48: OEDIPUS That would all be fine, if
Page 49 and 50: Yes. That’s what frightens me. ME
Page 51 and 52: That’s how you got your name, Oed
Page 53 and 54: Please. Listen to me. I beg you. Do
Page 55 and 56: CHORUS Yes. I recognize the man. Al
Page 57 and 58: OEDIPUS Don’t hit him! He doesn
Page 59 and 60: OEDIPUS And I, to hear it. But it m
Page 61 and 62: Time, the all-seeing, Has found you
Page 63 and 64: Terrible horror for both husband an
Page 65 and 66: OEDIPUS What is left for me to see,
Page 67 and 68: yes, you engendered the most shamef
Page 69 and 70: from sickness or anything else: I w
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CREON Tell me. I’ll listen. OEDIP
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GLOSSARY Abae (A, as in add, -bee),
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