Euripides' Medea Int. and Trans. by Marianne McDonald Copyright ...
Euripides' Medea Int. and Trans. by Marianne McDonald Copyright ...
Euripides' Medea Int. and Trans. by Marianne McDonald Copyright ...
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<strong>and</strong> the company of friends,<br />
But I’m living in a new city.<br />
After he carted me off, like some foreign souvenir,<br />
my husb<strong>and</strong> has ab<strong>and</strong>oned me.<br />
I don’t have a mother, a brother,<br />
or a relative to turn to now that<br />
things have gone wrong.<br />
I must ask a favor from you:<br />
if I find some way to pay my husb<strong>and</strong> back 260<br />
for what I’ve suffered, please keep quiet.<br />
In most things a woman<br />
is full of fear <strong>and</strong> no warrior at all,<br />
but if she is wronged in love<br />
there is no mind more bent on bloody revenge.<br />
CHORUS<br />
I swear I’ll say nothing.<br />
You are right to avenge yourself on your husb<strong>and</strong>, <strong>Medea</strong>.<br />
Your suffering does not surprise me<br />
After what you’ve had to endure.<br />
Here’s Creon now, the ruler of our l<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Let’s hope he has something to say about all of this. 270<br />
Enter CREON. Exit NURSE into house.<br />
CREON<br />
<strong>Medea</strong>, scowling at every thing <strong>and</strong> everyone,<br />
I order you to leave this l<strong>and</strong> immediately with your two children.<br />
That is my decree; I won’t go home<br />
until I’ve seen the last of you.<br />
MEDEA<br />
I am totally destroyed.<br />
My enemies are storming against me<br />
<strong>and</strong> I have no safe harbor to shelter in.<br />
I know how you feel about me, but I’ll still ask: 280<br />
why are you sending me into exile, Creon?<br />
CREON<br />
I’m not afraid to say it straight out:<br />
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