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Your people here would know that best. OEDIPUS Does anyone of you know this shepherd of whom he speaks Have you seen him here, or in the fields Tell me, it’s time everything is revealed. 1050 CHORUS I think he is the same man that you asked to come here from the fields, but Jocasta would be the best one to tell you. Turning to JOCASTA. OEDIPUS You know the man we’ve sent for. Is this the same man JOCASTA Why ask about him Pay no attention. Forget what has been said. It’s worthless information. OEDIPUS, getting irritated Do you want me to cover up my birth, just when we’re getting so close JOCASTA I beg you, by the gods above, 1060 if you care about your life, don’t try to find this out. It is enough that I’m sick over it. OEDIPUS Don’t worry. Even if I’m a slave, born of a slave mother, whose own mother and grandmother were slaves, you are still noble. JOCASTA 52
Please. Listen to me. I beg you. Don’t do this! OEDIPUS You will never talk me out of discovering the truth. I’m telling you this for your own good. JOCASTA OEDIPUS It’s that “good” that has been tearing me apart for a long time now. JOCASTA O you miserable man. I hope you never learn who you are! OEDIPUS, to chorus Let her go and glory in her wealth and high birth. Will someone bring the shepherd to me 1070 Unhappy man! That’s all I can call you, and nothing else ever again. JOCASTA Exit JOCASTA. CHORUS Why has she rushed off in such wild anguish I’m afraid that from this silence, an evil storm will erupt. OEDIPUS Let the storm’s fury rain down on my head! Even if I’m born from beggars, I want to know where I came from. But she, with her high and mighty airs, she’ll be ashamed if it turns out I’m not noble. I’m a child of chance, and I won’t be despised for that. 53
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 and 20: A man who’s not afraid to commit
Page 21 and 22: OEDIPUS But shouldn’t you tell me
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: That’s how you got your name, Oed
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
Page 71 and 72: CREON Tell me. I’ll listen. OEDIP
Page 73 and 74: GLOSSARY Abae (A, as in add, -bee),

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