Activity 06
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- Theseus, Duke of Athens, returns home from a conquest with wife, Hippolyta and her sister Emelye.
- He comes upon a crowd of grieving woman.
- This angers Theseus, so he sets of for the Thebes.
- Our husbands have been slain by Lord Creon of Thebes and we can't retrieve their bodies
- Theseus kill Lord Creon, captures the city and return the remains of the slain husbands to the wives.
- He also kidnaps two knights Palamon and Arcite, who are cousins and sworn brothers, and puts them in his prison.
- Palamon and Arcite both see Emelye through the bars of the cell and instantly fall in love
- They argue about who saw her first but finally come to realize none of them would have a chance at winning her heart as they were stuck in a cell.
- He can be released from my prison BUT he must never return to Arthens again!
- A mutual friend of Arcite and Theseus, Perotheus comes to bail Arcite out of jail. Theseus allows this but under some strict conditions.
- Arcite is released and returns to Thebes. But both knights have some inner thoughts.
- I wish I could get out of here too... but what if he comes back and lays seige to Arthens then takes Emelye by force?
- Now I won't get to see Emelye anymore...but he gets too.
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