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And when you grow up, when someone hears the story of your birth, who will risk marrying you Will they risk gossip about you and your parents It’s all there. Your father killed his father; he had children from his mother, the source of his own life. Those are the insults you will hear; so who would marry you 1500 No one. You’ll die unmarried and childless. Creon, son of Menoeceus, you are their father now. Their own parents are dead. Do not let them become beggars, or be unwed. Do not let them suffer what I have had to suffer. Take pity on them: they have nothing except what you choose to give them. Say yes, you good man, and touch them with your hand. 1510 I could tell you a lot of things, children, if you were old enough. But, now, pray that you live where you can, and that your life be better than your father’s. You have wept enough: go inside now. I don’t want to, but I’ll do what you say. Everything good has its time and place. Do you know my conditions for leaving CREON OEDIPUS CREON OEDIPUS 70
CREON Tell me. I’ll listen. OEDIPUS Send me out of the country. CREON It’s up to God. The gods hate me. OEDIPUS CREON So then, you’ll probably get what you want. OEDIPUS Will you do what you promised 1520 I don’t say things I don’t mean. Take me away from here now. Leave now, and let your children go. No. Don’t take them away. CREON OEDIPUS CREON OEDIPUS CREON You no longer have any say in what happens here. Your days of power are over. Exeunt OEDIPUS, CREON and CHILDREN. 71
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Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus Intro
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Sophocles was born at Colonus near
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his own destruction. There is the s
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First Performance: 6 th at Penn The
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A crowd led by Zeus’ PRIEST gathe
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PRIEST The news must be good; other
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CREON All those with the king died,
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And protect me from all harm. Just
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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 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: from sickness or anything else: I w
Page 73 and 74: GLOSSARY Abae (A, as in add, -bee),
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