Oedipus the King
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- "What feeling brings you to me-fear or desire You can be confident that I will help..I will assist you in every way" (Line 11).
- Prologue: Oedipus, People of Thebes, and Creon
- "My royal kinsman, child of Menoeceus, what royal message from the gods do you bring us?
- "Laius was killed. And now the god is clear: those murderers-must be punished, whoever they may be" (100).
- "And where are they? In what country? Where am I to find a trace of this ancient crime?" (101).
- "Here in Thebes, so said the god. What is sought is found, but what is overlooked escapes" (106).
- Thus, in avenging Laius, I serve myself..Someone must call the Theban people to assemble here. I'll do everything I can" (171).
- First Episode: Oedipus and Tiresias
- "If you know something, then, by hevaen, do not turn away. We are your suppliants-all of us-we bend our knees to you"
- "You are all ignorant. I will not reveal the troubling things inside me, which I could call your grief as well. (363).
- OEDIPUS and CREON enter the palace..
- "What are you saying? Do you know and will not say? Do you intend to betray me and destroy the city? (368).
- Enter TIRESIAS led by a small BOY..
- "I will cause neither you or me distress. Why do you vainly question me like this? YOu will not learn a thing from me" (371).
- "Must I tolerate this insolence from him? Get out, and the plague get rid of you! Off with you!" (518).
- "I would have not come, but you summoned me.." (521).
- Exit TIRESIAS led off by the boy. OEDIPUS returns back to the palace.
- "You! How did you get here?--you are obviously the murderer of a man that wants to steal my throne" (615).
- "If you think being stubborn and forgetting common sense is wise, then you're not thinking as you should" (660).
- Second Episode: Oedipus and Creon; Oedipus and Jocasta
- "Did you or did not persuade me to send for Tiresias, that prophet? (670).
- ¨Yes. And Id still give you the same advice¨ (671).
- "How long is it been since Laius.." [pauses] (672).
- "Did what? What's Laius got to do with anything?" (673).
- "You foolish men, why are you arguing in such a silly way? With our land so sick, your not ashamed to start a private fight? (770).
- Sister, your husband Oedipus intends to punish me in one of two dreadful ways-to banish me from my fathers' country or arrest me & have me killed"
- "Oedipus, for the sake of the gods, trust him in this. Respect the oath he made before all heaven-do it for my sake and those around you.." (788).
- "Ah, Jocasta, my dearest wife, why have you summoned me to leave our home and come out here?" (1127).
- Enter JOCASTA from the palace..
- Third Episode: Messenger and Oedipus; Jocasta's epiphany
- That's right. Lady, I caught him committing treason, conspiring against my royal authority" (779).
- "Who is this man? What report does he have for me?" (1132).
- "What? Stranger, let me hear from you in person" (1134).
- Exit CREON away from the palace, leaving OEDIPUS and JOCASTA and the CHORUS on stage.
- "You must hear this man, and as you listen, decide for yourself what these prophecies, these proclamations from the gods amount to" (1130).
- "Lady do you know the man we sent for-just minutes ago-the one we summoned here? Is he the one this messenger refers to?" (1260).
- "He comes from Corinth, bringing news that Polybus, your father, is no longer alive. He's dead" (1133).
- [To Chorus] "Go, one of you, and bring that shepherd here. Leave the lady to enjoy her noble family" (1285).
- "If I must first report my news quite plainly, then I should let you know that Polybus has passed away. He's dead" (1136).
- "Why ask me what he means? Forget all that. There's no point in trying to sort out what he said" (1261).
- "With all these indications of the truth here in my grasp, I cannot end this now. I must reveal the details of my birth" (1262).
- "In the name of the gods, no! If you have some concern for your own life, then stop! Do not keep investigating this. I will suffer-that'll be enough"
- Alas, you poor, miserable man! There's nothing more that I can say to you. And now I'll never speak again."
- JOCASTA runs into the palace.
- "You, old man, over there. Look at me. Now answer what I ask. Some time ago, did you work for Laius?" (1343).
- "Yes, as a slave. But I was not bought. I grew up in this house" (1344).
- Fourth Episode: The Shepherd and Oedipus (Oedipus's epiphany)
- "If you won't tell us of your own free will, once we start to hurt you, you will talk" (1380).
- "By all the gods, don't torture an old man!" (1281)
- Why are you doing this to me? It's too much for me! What is it you want to know?" (1383).
- "One of you there, tie up this fellows hands" (1382).
- "If I have to ask again, then you will die" (1396).
- "I pitied the boy, master, and I thought he'd take the child..But he rescued him. For if your the one this man says you are, you know your birth carried an awful fate" (1412)
- "Ah, so it all came true now. O light, let me look at you one final time, a man who stands revealed as birth by curse, cursed by my family, and cursed by murderer where i should not kill" (1418).
- "The child was born in Laius's house" (1397).
- OEDIPUS moves into the palace..
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