WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.200 Part one antigony, and is many before the palace gates, is many, 2 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:11.359 sister of my blood and heart? Seest thou how zeus would in our lives 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:16.399 fulfill the weird of Oedipus, a world of woes. For what of pain, 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:21.679 affliction, outrage, shame is lacking in our fortunes thine and mine? 5 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:27.519 And now this proclamation of to day made by our Captain General to the state, 6 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:32.560 what can its purport be? Didst here and heed? Or art thou 7 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.920 deaf? When friends are banned as foes to me antigony? No word of 8 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.799 friends has come or glad or grievous. Since we twain were reft of our 9 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:46.479 two brethren in one day by double fratricide, and since in the night our 10 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:52.079 argive leaguers fled, no later news has reached me to in spirit or deject 11 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:56.320 I know twas so, and therefore summoned thee beyond the gates to breathe it 12 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.719 in thine ear? What is it? Some dark secret, stir thy breast? 13 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.640 What but the thought of our two brothers dead, the one by Creon 14 00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:11.200 graced with funeral rites, the other disappointed heataocles, he hath consigned to earth 15 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:17.239 as fame reports with obsequies that use and won't ordain so gracing him among the 16 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:23.480 dead below. But paranses a dishonored course. So by report, the royal 17 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:27.840 edict runs, no man may bury him or make lament, must leave him 18 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:34.439 tombless and unwept, a feast for kites to scent afar and swoop upon. 19 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:40.879 Such is the edict. If reports speak true of Creon, our most noble 20 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.599 Creon aim'd at thee and me I me too, and anon he will be 21 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:51.239 here to promulgate, for such as have not heard his mandate. Tis in 22 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.599 sooth no passing humor. For the edict says, whoe'er transgressors shall be stoned 23 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.239 to death. So stands it with us? Now is thine to show if 24 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:06.480 thou art worthy of thy blood or base? But how my rash fond sister, 25 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:10.039 in such case can I do anything to make or mar say? Wilt 26 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:15.560 thou aid me and a bet? Decide in what bold venture? What is 27 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.599 in thy thought? Lend me a hand to bear the corpse away? What 28 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:24.919 bury him? Despite the interdict, my brother, And though thou deny him 29 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.719 thine, no man shall say that I betrayed a brother wilt thou persist? 30 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.960 Though Creon has forbid, what right has he to keep me from mine own? 31 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:39.120 Bethink THEE Sister, of our father's fate, abhorred, dishonored, self, 32 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:46.280 convinced of sin, blinded himself his executioner. Think of his mother wife 33 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:52.159 ill sortid names done by a noose, herself had twined to death and last 34 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:57.280 our hapless brethren in one day, both in a mutual destiny, involved self 35 00:02:57.319 --> 00:03:00.960 slaughtered, both the slayer and the slain, bethink, THEE Sister, We 36 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:06.400 are left alone, shall we not perish? Wretchedest of all, if in 37 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:10.159 defiance of the law we cross a monarch's will, weak women, think of 38 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:15.319 that not framed by nature to contend with men. Remember this too, that 39 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:22.120 the stronger rules, we must obey his orders, these or worse. Therefore, 40 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.960 I plead compulsion and entreat the dead to pardon. I perforce obey the 41 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.120 powers that be. Tis foolishness. I ween to overstep in aught the golden 42 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:36.159 mean. I urge no more, nay wert thou willing? Still, I 43 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.759 would not welcome such a fellowship. Go thine own way. Myself will bury 44 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.919 him. How sweet to die in such employ to rest, sister and brother 45 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:50.800 linked in love's embrace, A sinless sinner banned awhile on earth, but by 46 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:54.960 the dead commended, and with them, I shall abide forever. As for 47 00:03:55.039 --> 00:04:00.439 THEE scorn. If thou wilt the eternal laws of Heaven, I scorn them 48 00:04:00.520 --> 00:04:04.479 not. But to defy the state or break her ordinance, I have no 49 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:11.680 skill a specious pretext. I will go alone to lap my dearest brother in 50 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.800 the grave. My poor fond sister, how I fear for THEE. O 51 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.879 waste no fears on me. Look to thyself at least let no man know 52 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:25.040 of thine intent. But keep it close and secret, as will I. 53 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:28.879 Oh tell it, Sister, I shall hate THEE more if thou proclaim it 54 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:32.199 not to all the town. Thou hast a fiery soul for numbing work. 55 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:38.360 I pleasure those whom I would leafest. Please if thou succeed, but thou 56 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.399 art doomed to fail. When strength shall fail me, yes, but not 57 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.560 before. But if the ventures hopeless, why is say, sister, forbear? 58 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.279 Or I shall hate THEE soon, and the dead man will hate THEE 59 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:55.920 too with cause? Say I am mad, and give my madness rein to 60 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.519 wreck itself. The worst that can befall is but to die, and honorable 61 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.519 death have thine own way, then tis a mad endeavor. Yet to thy 62 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:11.439 lovers, thou art dear as ever excellent sunbeam of all that ever dawn upon 63 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:16.279 our seven gated TheBus the brightest ray, Oh aye, a golden day, 64 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:24.560 How fair thy light o'er dirke is fountain shone Speeding upon their headlong homeward course. 65 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:30.600 Far quicker than they came, the Argave force putting to flight. The 66 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:36.519 Argent sets the host, which Kutchum's white against our land. The proud invader 67 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:44.639 came to vindicate felt Polyniche exclaim, like to an eagle, swooping low on 68 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:50.000 Pinion's white, dost new fall snow, with clanging scream a horse dey plume 69 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:58.480 his crest. The aspiring lord of Argus onward crest, hovering around our city 70 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:03.319 wall sea, waits his spearmen raven at our seven gates. But e'er torch 71 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:10.000 our crown of tow'rs could burn, e'er they had tasted of our blood. 72 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:15.439 They turn'd forc'd by the dragon in their rear. The dim of arispanic struck 73 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:24.160 They here for sev so hate. The raggart's boast beheld that gold bespangl'd host 74 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:29.439 as at the gold. The pain they uprais'd. He struck them with his 75 00:06:29.639 --> 00:06:35.800 fault light'ning blaze to earth. He from earth, rebounding down, he crash'd 76 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:43.920 the firebrand from his impious hand was dash'd as like a backic rev'ler on. 77 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:49.720 He came out, breathing hate and flame, and totter'd elsewhere in the field. 78 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:58.279 Here there great area like a war horse wheel' beneath his car down thrust 79 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:05.959 our foemen the dust seven captains at our seven gates thunder'd for each a champion 80 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:14.040 waits, each left behind his armor bride trophy for Seve's who turns the fight 81 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:20.600 save two alone, that ill star'd pair one mother to one father bear who 82 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:29.240 lance in rest, one gainst the other drave and both perish'd rather slain by 83 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:36.480 brother. Now victory to theobus returns again and smiles upon her chariots circl'd. 84 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:43.680 Plain. Now let feast and festal should memories of war blot out. Let 85 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:48.759 us to the temple's throng, dance and sing the live night long God of 86 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:56.439 TheBus, Lead thou the round Bacchus, shaker of the ground. Let us 87 00:07:56.639 --> 00:08:03.040 end our revels here, low cree, our new lord ros ne'er crown. 88 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:09.560 By this strange chance, our King, what I'm marvel pondering why the summons 89 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:16.680 wherever call us his elder's one, and all beating us with him debate on 90 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:24.360 some grave concern of state, Enter creon, elders. The gods have writed 91 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:28.600 once again, our storm tossed ship of state now safe in port. But 92 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:35.919 you, by special summons I conven'd as my most trusted counselors, first because 93 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.879 I knew you loyal to lay us of old again when Oedipus restored our state, 94 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:45.759 both while he ruled and when his rule was o'er ye still were constant 95 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:50.279 to the royal line. Now that his two sons perish'd in one day, 96 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:56.120 brother by brother, murderously slain by right of kinship to the prince's dead, 97 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:03.120 I claim and hold the throne and sovereignty. Yet tis no easy matter to 98 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:09.159 discern the temper of a man his mind and will till he be prov'd by 99 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:16.320 exercise of power. And in my case, if one who reigns supreme swerve 100 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.759 from the highest policy tongue tied by fear of consequence that man I hold, 101 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.480 and ever held, the basest of the base. And I condemn the man 102 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:33.120 who sets his friend before his country. For myself I call to witness Zeus, 103 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:39.399 whose eyes are everywhere. If I perceive some mischievous design to sap the 104 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:45.200 State, I will not hold my tongue, nor would I reckon as my 105 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:50.200 private friend a public foe. Well knowing that the State is the good ship 106 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:58.799 that holds our fortunes, all farewell to friendship if she suffers wreck. Such 107 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.840 is the policy which I seek to serve the Commons, And conformably I have 108 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:09.440 proclaimed an edict as concerns the sons of Oedipus Eteocles, who, in his 109 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:18.720 country's battle fought and fell the foremost champion. Duly bury him with all observances 110 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:24.960 and ceremonies that are the gurden of the heroic dead. But for the miscreant 111 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:30.360 exile, who returned, minded in flames and ashes, to blot out his 112 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:35.519 father's city and his father's gods, and glut his vengeance with his kinsman's blood, 113 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:43.000 or drag them captive at his chariot wheels. For Polyneses tis ordained that 114 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:48.240 none shall give him burial or make mourn for him, but leave his corpse 115 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.919 unburied, to be meet for dogs and carrion crows a ghastly sight. So 116 00:10:54.080 --> 00:11:00.600 am I purposed. Never by my will shall miscreants take precedence of true men, 117 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:05.240 But all good patriots, alive or dead, shall be by me preferr'd 118 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:11.679 and honor'd son of men northsheps. Thus thou waste to deal with him who 119 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:18.240 loathe and him who loved our state. Thy word is law. Thou can'st 120 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.799 dispose of us the living, as thou wast as of the dead. See, 121 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:28.559 then ye execute what I ared in on younger shoulders, laydst grievous charge. 122 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.279 Fear not I have posted guards to watch the corpse. But further duty 123 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:39.879 wouldst thou lay on us not to connive at disobedience. No man is mad 124 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:45.799 enough to court his death. The penalty is death. Yet hope of gain 125 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:52.320 hath lur'd men to their ruin. Oftentimes enter guard. My Lord, I 126 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:58.080 will not make pretense to pant and puff some light footed messenger. In sooth. 127 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.919 My soul beneath its pack of thought, made many a halt and turn'd 128 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.480 and turn'd again for conscience, pli'd her spur and curb thy turns. Why 129 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.879 hurry headlong to thy feet? Poor fool? She whisper'd. Then again, 130 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:20.240 if creon learn this from another, thou wilt rue it worse. Thus leisurely 131 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:26.759 I hasten'd on my road. Much thought extends the furlong to a league. 132 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.799 But in the end the forward voice prevail'd. To face thee. I will 133 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:37.799 speak, though I say nothing for plucking courage from despair methought. Let the 134 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.840 worst hap thou canst but meet thy feet? What is thy news? Why 135 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:48.159 this despondency? Let me premise a word about myself. I neither did the 136 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.720 deed, nor saw it done? Nor were it just that I should come 137 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:58.519 to harm. Thou art good at parry, and canst fancy about some matter 138 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:03.919 of grave import? Has this plain? The bearer of dread tidings needs must 139 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:07.519 quake, Then, Sirra, should thy bolt and get thee garmn Well it 140 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:13.960 must out. The corpse is buried. Some one e'en now besprinkl'd it with 141 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:20.960 thirsty dust, perform'd the proper ritual, and was gone. What sayest thou 142 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.919 who hast dared to do this thing, I cannot tell, for there was 143 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.759 ne'er a trace, a pique or matick, hard unbroken ground, without a 144 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:37.039 scratch or rut of chariot wheels, no sign that human hands had been at 145 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:41.840 work. When the first century of the morning watch'd gave the alarm, we 146 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:46.080 all were terror stricken. The corpse had vanish'd, not inter'd in earth, 147 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.559 but strewn with dust, as if by one who sought to avert the course 148 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:56.399 that haunts the unburied dead of hound or ravening jackal. Not a sign. 149 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:03.039 Thereat rose an angry war of words, guard railed, guard, and blurs 150 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:07.759 were like to end it. For none was there to part us, each 151 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:11.480 in turn suspected, but the guilt brought home to none. From lack of 152 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:18.120 evidence. We challeng'd each the ordeal or to handle red hot iron or pass'd 153 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:24.559 through fire, affirming on our oath our innocence. We neither did the deed 154 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.960 ourselves, nor know who did or compass'd it. Our quest was at a 155 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:35.919 standstill when one spake and bow'd us all to earth thy quivering reeds. For 156 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:41.399 there is no gain seeing him or way'd to escape perdition. Ye are bound 157 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.840 to tell the king, Ye cannot hide it, so he speak, and 158 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:52.600 he convinced us all so lots were cast, and I, unlucky scape good 159 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:58.200 grew the prize. So here I am unwilling and withal unwelcome. No man 160 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:03.919 cares to he who knews I had mischevings from the first, my leech of 161 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:09.600 something more than natural at work. Oh, cease you vex me with your 162 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:13.440 babblement. I am like to think you dote in your old age? Is 163 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:16.519 it not arrant folly to pretend that gods would have a thought for this dead 164 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.840 man? Did they forsooth award him special grace? And as some benefactor, 165 00:15:22.919 --> 00:15:28.360 bury him who came to fire? There hallowed sanctuaries to sack their shrines, 166 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.559 to desolate their land and scout their ordinances. Or perchance the gods bestow their 167 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:39.360 favors on the bad. No. No, I have long noted malcontents who 168 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:46.639 wagged their heads and kicked against the yoke, misliking these my orders and my 169 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:54.240 rule. Tis they I warrant who suborned my guards by bribes of evil's current 170 00:15:54.320 --> 00:16:00.759 upon earth. The worst is money. Money tis that sack cities and drives 171 00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:07.279 men forth from hearth and home. Warps and seduce's native innocence and breeds a 172 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:12.840 habit of dishonesty. But they who sold themselves shall find their greed outshot the 173 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.399 mark, and rue it soon or late. Yea as I still revere the 174 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:25.200 dread of Zeus, by Zeus, I swear, except ye find and bring 175 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:30.720 before my presence here the very man who carried out this lawless burial death for 176 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:37.799 your punishment, shall not suffice hanged on a cross alive. Ye first shall 177 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.639 make confession of this outrage. This will teach you what practices are like to 178 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:47.639 serve your turn. There are some villainies that bring no gain. For by 179 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.919 dishonesty the few may thrive, the many come to ruin and disgrace. May 180 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.799 I not speak? Or must I turn and go without a word? Begone? 181 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.600 Canst thou not see that e'en this question me? Where my lord? 182 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:06.079 Is it? Thy ears that suffer? Or thy heart? Why seek to 183 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.519 probe and find the seat of pain? I go, thine ears, this 184 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:17.000 miscreant thy mind? What an invaterate babbler? Get thee gone babler perchance, 185 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:23.279 but innocent of the crime twice guilty having sold thy soul for gain? Alas 186 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:30.160 how sad and reason is reason wrong? Go quibble with thy reason. If 187 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.640 thou fail'st to find these malefactors, thou shalt own the wages of ill, 188 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:38.799 got and gains is death. Exit creon. I pray he may be found, 189 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:45.480 But court or not, and fortune must determine that thou never shalt see 190 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.519 me here returning. That is sure. For pastal hope or thought I have 191 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:55.200 escap'd, and for my safety. O'er the gods, much thanks, Exit 192 00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:00.079 God. Many wonders there bee, but not more wondrous than thine, and 193 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:06.599 o'er the surging sea, Wi, the wid'ning south Windwan through the foam of 194 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:11.039 the firth man makes his perilous way, and the eldest of deed is Earth 195 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:18.519 that knows not toil nor decay. Ever, he furrows and scores as his 196 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:23.960 team year in year out, with breed of the yok'd horse, the plowshare 197 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:30.960 turneth about, the light witted birds of the air, the beasts of the 198 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:37.400 world, and the wood he traps with his woven snare, and the broad 199 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.960 of the briny flood. Master of cunning he, the savage bull, and 200 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:49.519 the heart who roams the mountain free are tain'd by his infinite art, and 201 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:56.880 the shaggy rough man steed is broken to bear the brit speech and the windswift 202 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:02.920 speed of counsel, and see be quit. He hath learn'd for himself all 203 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.680 these, and the arrowy reign to fly, and the nipping airs that freeze 204 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:15.039 neath the open winter sky. He hath provision for all felt plague. He 205 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:21.279 hath learn'd to endure safe whatever may befall. Yet for death he hath found 206 00:19:21.359 --> 00:19:29.319 no cure passing the wilest flight. Thought are the cunning and skill that guide 207 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.839 man now to the light, but now to counsels of ill. If he 208 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:40.640 honors the laws of the land and reveres the gods of the state proudly, 209 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:45.079 his city shall stand. But a cityless outcast I rate, who so bold 210 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:51.559 in his pride from the path of right, doth depart. Never may I 211 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:56.920 sit by his side, or share the thoughts of his heart. What strange 212 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:03.839 vision meets my eye, feel'st me with a wild surprise. Sure I know 213 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:11.759 her? Sure t is she the maid antigony, hapless child of hapless sire. 214 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:21.960 Didst thou recklessly conspire madly brave the King's decree? Therefore are they hailing 215 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:26.359 thee enterguard, bringing antigony. Here is the culprit taken in the act of 216 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.880 giving em burial. But where's the king? There? From the palace he 217 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:37.519 returns in time, intercreon, Why is my presence timely? What has chanced? 218 00:20:37.880 --> 00:20:41.119 No man my lord should make avow? For if he ever swears he 219 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:48.000 will not do a thing is afterthoughts belie his first resolve. When from the 220 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.279 hail storm of thy threats I fled, I swear thou wouldst not see me 221 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.720 here again. But the wild rapture of a glad surprise intoxicates, And so 222 00:20:57.119 --> 00:21:03.000 I'm herefore sworn, and hears my prisoner caught in a very act decking the 223 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:08.880 grave. No lottery this time. This prize is mine by right of treasure 224 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:15.079 trove. So take her, judge her, rack her if thou wilt. 225 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.599 She's thine, my liege. But I may rightly claim hence to depart well, 226 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:23.920 quit of all these ills. Say how didst thou arrest the maid? 227 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:30.240 And where burying the man? There's nothing more to tell. Hast thou thy 228 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:34.279 wits are, knowest thou what thou say'st I saw this woman burying the corpse 229 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:41.599 against thy orders is that clear and plain? But how was she surpriz'd and 230 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:47.200 caught in the act it happen'd. Thus, no sooner had we come driv'n 231 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:51.759 from thy presence by those awful threats, than straight we swept away our trace 232 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.079 of dust and bard the clammy body. Then we sat high on the ridge 233 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.519 to windward of the stench, while each man kept his fellow alert and rat'd 234 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:07.480 rounde the sluggard if he chanc'd to nap. So all night long we watch'd 235 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:12.200 until a sun stood high in heaven, and his blazing beams smote us a 236 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:17.680 sudden whirlwind. Then uprais'd a cloud of dust that blotted out the sky, 237 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.880 and swept the plain, and strip'd the woodland's bare, and shook'd the firmament. 238 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.759 We clos'd our eyes and wait'd till a heav'n set plague should pass. 239 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:34.079 At last it ceas'd, and lo there stood this maid a piercing cry. 240 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.680 She utter'd, sad and shrill, as when the mother bird beholds her nest 241 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:44.759 robb'd of its nestings. Ev'n. So the maid wail'd as she saw the 242 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.799 body stripp'd and bare, and curs'd the ruftins who had done this deed. 243 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:55.880 Anon, She gather'd handfuls of dry dust, then, holding high a well 244 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.559 wrought brazen earn'd thrice on the dead. She pour'd a lust' stream. We 245 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:06.480 at the sight swooped down on her and seized our quarry. Undismayed, she 246 00:23:06.599 --> 00:23:11.519 stood, and when we text her with the former crime and this, she 247 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:18.799 discerned nothing. I was glad and grieved for tis most sweet escape, oneself 248 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:23.480 scot free, and yet to bring disaster to a friend his grievous take it 249 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:27.720 all in all, I deemed the man's first duty is to serve himself. 250 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:33.839 Speak girl, with head bent low and downcast eyes. Dost thou plead guilty 251 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:38.680 or deny the deed? Guilty? I did it. I deny it. 252 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:44.720 Not to guard Sarah begone? Whither thou wilt? And thank thy luck that 253 00:23:44.759 --> 00:23:48.799 thou hast escaped a heavy charge to antigony. Now answer this plain question, 254 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:56.079 yes? Or now wast thou acquainted with the interdict? I knew, all 255 00:23:56.279 --> 00:24:00.680 knew. How should I fail to know? And yet wert bold enough to 256 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:04.799 break the law? Yea, For these laws were not ordained of Zeus, 257 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:12.000 And she who sits enthroned with gods below. Justice enacted not these human laws. 258 00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:17.519 Nor did I deem that thou, a mortal man, couldst by a 259 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:22.519 breath an null and override the immutable, unwritten laws of heaven. They were 260 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:27.599 not born to day nor yesterday. They die not, and none knoweth whence 261 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:33.599 they sprang. I was not like who feared no mortals frown to disobey these 262 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:38.319 laws and so provoke the wrath of heaven. I knew that I must die 263 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:44.200 ean hatst thou not proclaimed it. And if death is thereby hastened, I 264 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:48.160 shall count it gain, for death is gained to him whose life, like 265 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:52.160 mine, is full of misery. Thus my lot appears not sad but blissful. 266 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.039 For had I endured to leave my mother's son unburied there, I should 267 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:02.880 have grieved with reason, but not now. And if in this thou judgest 268 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:06.359 me a fool, bethinks the judge of follies, not a quit. A 269 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:11.480 stubborn daughter of a stubborn sire, this even stout maiden geeks against the creaks, 270 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:18.119 Well let her know. The stubbornest of wills are soonest, bended as 271 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.279 the hardest iron or heated in the fire. To brittleness, flies soonest into 272 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:29.920 fragments, shivered through a snaffle, curbs the fieriest steed, And he who, 273 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.759 in subjection lives must needs be meek. But this proud girl, in 274 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:41.200 insolence, well schooled, first overstepped the established law, and then a second 275 00:25:41.279 --> 00:25:48.920 and worse act of insolence. She boasts and glories in her wickedness. Now 276 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:53.160 if she thus can float authority unpunished, I am woman, she the man. 277 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:59.119 But though she be my sister's child, or nearer of kin than all 278 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:03.359 who worship it my hearth, nor she, nor yet her sister, shall 279 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:08.440 escape the utmost penalty. For both thy hold as arch conspirators of equal guilt, 280 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.640 bring forth the older. Even now I saw her within the palace, 281 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:18.480 frenzied and distraught, the workings of the mind, discover oft dark deeds in 282 00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:25.720 darkness schemed before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks, when 283 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.880 caught, to make a virtue of a crime, wouldst thou do more than 284 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.200 slay thy prisoner? Not I? Thy life is mine, and that's enough. 285 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.839 Why dally then? To me? No word of thine is pleasant? 286 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:42.880 God forbid it'err should please, Nor am I more acceptable to thee. 287 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:48.359 And yet how otherwise had I achieved a name so glorious as by burying a 288 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:52.079 brother? So my townsmen all would say, were they not gagged by terror, 289 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.599 manifold King's prerogative, and not the least that all his acts and all 290 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:02.160 his words are law. Of all these thebans none so deems, But thou 291 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.960 these think as I, but bait their breath to thee. Hast thou no 292 00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:11.839 shame to differ from all these? To reverence kith and kin can bring no 293 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.799 shame? Was his dead foeman not thy kinsman? Too? One? Mother 294 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:21.119 bear them and the self same, sire? Why cast a slur on one 295 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:23.759 by honoring one? A dead man will not bear thee out In this? 296 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:30.039 Surely, if good and evil fair alive, the slain man was no villain, 297 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:36.400 but a brother, the patriot perished by the outlaw's brand nathless the realms 298 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:41.160 below these rights require not that the base should fare as do the brave, 299 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:45.160 who knows if this world's crimes are virtues. There not even death can make 300 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:51.119 a foe a friend. My nature is for mutual love, not hate. 301 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.119 Die then and love the dead. If thou must, no woman shall be 302 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:02.319 the master while I live. Enter is many low from halt the palace gate, 303 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:10.759 weeping o'er her sister's fate comes ismena. See her brow one serene beclouded. 304 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:17.880 Now see her beauteous face overspread with a flash of angry red woman who 305 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.440 like a viper unperceived? Didst harbor in my house and drain my blood? 306 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:29.319 Two plagues thy nurtured blindly, so it proved to sap my throne. Say 307 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:33.680 didst thou too abet this crime? Or dost abjure all privity? I did 308 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:37.440 the deed, if she will have it so? And with my sister claim 309 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.960 to share the guilt that were unjust. Thou wouldst not act with me at 310 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:47.039 first, and I refused thy partnership. But now thy bark is stranded. 311 00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:51.440 I am bold to claim my share as partner in the loss who did the 312 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:56.400 deed? The underworld knows well a friend in word is never friend of mine. 313 00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.559 Oh, sister, scorn me not, but let me share thy work 314 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.480 of piety, and with thee die claim not a work in which thou hadst 315 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:08.519 no hand? One death sufficeth, wherefore shouldst thou die? What would life 316 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:14.440 profit me? Bereft of thee. Ask Creon, he's thy kinsman and best 317 00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.920 friend. Why taunt me? Find'st thou pleasure in these gibes tis a sad 318 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:23.480 mockery. If indeed I mock, Oh say if I can help thee even 319 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:30.200 now, no save thyself. I grudge not thy escape is een this boon 320 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:34.799 denied to share thy lot yea, for thou chosed'st life and I to die. 321 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:40.000 Thou canst not say that I did not protest well. Some approved thy 322 00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:45.480 wisdom, others mine. But now we stand convicted both alike fear not thou 323 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.720 livest I died long ago, then when I gave my life to save the 324 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:56.440 dead. Both maids, methinks, are crazed. One suddenly has lost her 325 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.279 wits, the other was born mad. Yea, So it falls, sire, 326 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.000 when misfortune comes. The wisest even lose their mother wit. If faith 327 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:08.680 thy wit forsook thee. When thou midst thy choice with evil doers to do 328 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.599 ill? What life for me without my sister? Here? Say not thy 329 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:19.519 sister, here thy sister's dead. What wilt thou slay thy own son's plighted 330 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:25.680 bride? Aye? Let him raise seed from other fields? No new espousal 331 00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:30.920 can be like the old the plague on trolls who court and woo our sons. 332 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:36.880 O haymon, how thy sire dishonors thee, A plague on thee, 333 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.359 and thy accursed bride. What wait thou robe thine own son of his bride? 334 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:47.160 Tis death that bars this marriage, not his sire, so a death 335 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:51.799 warrant. It would seem his seed by you, as first by me. 336 00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:56.440 Off with them guards, and keep them close henceforward, Let them learn to 337 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:02.279 live as women use, not roam at large, freeing. The bravest spirits 338 00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.839 run away when they perceive death pressing on life's keels. Thrice bless'd are they 339 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.279 who never taste it pain. If once the curse of heav'n attained the race, 340 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:18.680 the infection lingers on and speeds apace, age after age, and each 341 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:26.400 the cup must drain. So when itesim blasts from thrak, a downtour sweep 342 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.559 o'er the blackening main and world to land from ocean's cavernous depth, his o's 343 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:40.519 and sand below on below thunders on the shore on the lava, siday I 344 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:47.319 see descending woe upon woe. From days of old sun God laid on the 345 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:52.920 race, A malison and his rod scourdious, each age with sorrows never ending. 346 00:31:55.519 --> 00:32:00.359 The light that dawn'd upon its last bon sun is vanish, and the 347 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:07.119 bloody axe of fate has felt the goodly tree that blossom'd l'ate o erippus by 348 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:15.359 reckless pride, undone thy might o sev's what mortal pow'r can quell. Not 349 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:22.880 sleep that lays all else beneath its spell, nor moons that never tire, 350 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:30.519 untouch'd by time thron'd in the dazzling light that crown's olympus hight, Thou reignest 351 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:37.160 king, omnipotent, sublime, past present, and to be all bow to 352 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:44.359 thy decree. All that exceeds the mean by fate is punish'd. Love or 353 00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:51.720 hate. Hope flits about, never wearying wings proffit to sum to sunlight. 354 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:58.559 Love's ship brings, but no man knoweth our gifts may turn tillneath his feet. 355 00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:05.720 The treat'er's ashes spurn sure t us A sage inspir'd that spake this word. 356 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:12.880 If ye vi good appear to any, Fate is ne'er and brief the 357 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:20.759 spite from her flaming sword either comes in angry mood, Haimon, laidest of 358 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:25.440 thy brood? Is it for his bride, he scream'd, or her marriage 359 00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:34.279 bed deceiv'd? Doth hee make is mourn for thee made forlorn antiguony enter him 360 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:38.279 on soon? Shall we know better than see or can tell learning my fix'd 361 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:45.039 decree anent thy bride, Thou mean'st not son too, breathe against thy sire 362 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:50.200 know'st not. Whate'er we do is done in love, Oh father, I 363 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:53.240 am thine, and I will take thy wisdom as the helm to steer withal. 364 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.559 Therefore, no wedlock shall by me be held more precious than thy loving, 365 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:06.200 well spoken, So right minded sons should feel in all deferring to a 366 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:10.159 father's will, for tis the hope of parents. They may rear a brood 367 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:16.800 of sons submissive, keen to avenge their father's wrongs and count his friends their 368 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:23.119 own. But who begets unprofitable sons, he verily breeds trouble for himself and 369 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:30.400 for his foes. Much laughter, Son be warned, and let no woman 370 00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:36.400 fool away thy wits ill fares. The husband mated with a shrew and her 371 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:42.280 embraces very soon wax cold. For what can wound so surely to the quick 372 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:49.280 as a false friend? So spew and cast her off. Bid her go 373 00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:53.519 find a husband with the dead. For since I caught her openly rebelling, 374 00:34:53.880 --> 00:35:00.280 of all my subjects, the one malcontent, I will not prove a her 375 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:06.119 to the state. She surely dies. Go let her if she will appeal 376 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.719 to Zeus, the god of Kindred. For if thus I nurse rebellion in 377 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:15.960 my house, shall not I foster mutiny without? For whoso rules his household 378 00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:22.119 worthily will prove in civic matters no less wise, But he who overbears the 379 00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:29.199 laws and thinks to overrule his rulers, such a one I never will allow. 380 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:36.039 Whomever the state appoints must be obeyed in everything but small and great, 381 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.079 just and unjust. Alike, I warrant such a one, in either case 382 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.639 would shine as king or subject. Such a man would, in the storm 383 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:51.239 of battle, stand his ground a comrade, leal and true. But anarchy, 384 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:58.159 what evils are not wrought by anarchy? She ruins states and overthrows the 385 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:05.119 home. She dissipates and roots the embattled host, while discipline preserves the ordered 386 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:10.239 ranks. Therefore we must maintain authority and yield no title to a woman's will. 387 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:15.440 Better, if needs be, men should cast us out than hear it 388 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.280 said a woman proved his match to me. Unless old age have dulled wits, 389 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:27.199 Thy words appear both reasonable and wise. Father, the gods implant in 390 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:31.960 mortal men reason, the choicest gift bestowed by Heaven. Tis not for me 391 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:37.199 to say thou errest, Nor would I arraign thy wisdom if I could. 392 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:42.280 And yet wise thoughts may come to other men, and as thy son, 393 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.400 it falls to me to mark the act, the words, the comments of 394 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:51.519 the crowd. The commons stand in terror of thy frown, and dare not 395 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:57.480 utter aught that might offend. But I can overhear their muttered plaints. Know 396 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:00.960 how the people mourn. This maiden oomed for noblest deeds, to die the 397 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:07.480 worst of deaths. When her own brother slain in battle, lay unsepulchred. 398 00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:14.360 She suffered not his corpse to lie for carrion birds and dogs tom all should 399 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:20.519 not her name, they cry be writ in gold, Such the low murmurings 400 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:24.639 that reach my ear, Oh Father, nothing is by me more prized than 401 00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:30.360 thy well being. For what higher good can children covet than their sire's fair 402 00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.320 fame, as fathers too take pride in glorious sons. Therefore my father, 403 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:39.199 cling not to one mood, and deemed not thou art right, all others 404 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:44.719 wrong. For whoso thinks that wisdom dwells with him, that he alone can 405 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:50.400 speak or think aright, such oracles are empty breath. When tried. The 406 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:53.840 wisest man will let himself be swayed by others wisdom, and relax in time. 407 00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.719 See how the trees beside a stream in flood save if they yield to 408 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:07.480 force, each spray unharm'd. But by resisting parish root and branch. The 409 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:10.920 mariner, who keeps his mainsheet taught, and will not slacken in the gale, 410 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:16.320 is like to sail with thwarts reversed. Keel uppermost, relent then, 411 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:21.199 and repent thee of thy wrath. For if one young in years may claim 412 00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.760 some sense, I'll say tis best of all to be endowed with absolute wisdom. 413 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.679 But if that's denied, and nature takes not readily that ply next wise 414 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:37.119 is he who lists to sage advice. If he says aught in season, 415 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:43.880 heed him king to hamon he thou thy side too, Both have spoken well, 416 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:49.440 what would you have us at our age be school'd lessened in prudence by 417 00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:53.960 a beardless boy. I plead for justice, father, nothing more. Weigh 418 00:38:54.039 --> 00:39:00.679 me upon my merit, not my years, strange merit. This to sanction 419 00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.800 lawlessness for evildoers, I would urge, no, plea, is not this 420 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:09.760 made an arrant lawbreaker? The thebe and commons with one voice, saying, 421 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:15.079 no, what shall the mob dictate my policy?'tist? Thou methinks, 422 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:20.880 who speakest like a boy? Am I to rule for others or myself? 423 00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:25.159 A state for one man is no state at all. The state is his 424 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.880 who rules it. So tis held as monarch of a desert. Thou wouldst 425 00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:37.280 shine this boy, methinks, maintains the woman's cause. If thou be'st woman, 426 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:40.960 Yes, my thoughts for thee, oh reprobate wouldst wrangle with thy, 427 00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:47.000 sire, because I see THEE wrongfully perverse, and am I wrong? If 428 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:52.599 I maintain my rights? Talk not of rights? Thou spurtst the dew of 429 00:39:52.840 --> 00:40:00.360 heaven O heart corrupt a woman's minion, Thou slave to dishonor thou wilt never 430 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:06.239 find me Thy speech at least was all a plea for her and Thee and 431 00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:12.159 me, and for the gods below living the mide shall never be thy bride, 432 00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:15.519 So she shall die, but one will die with her. Hast come 433 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:21.280 to such a pass as threatened me? What threat is this? Vain counsels 434 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:28.159 to reprove vain fool to instruct thy betters. Thou shalt rue it wert not 435 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:32.239 my father, I had said, Thou erst play not the spaniel. Thou 436 00:40:32.559 --> 00:40:38.039 a woman's slave. When thou'st speak, must no man make reply. This 437 00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:43.920 passes bounds by heaven. Thou shalt not rate and jeer and float me with 438 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:49.199 impunity, off with the hateful thing. That she may die at once beside 439 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:53.239 her bridegroom in his sight, Think not that in my sight the maid shall 440 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:59.719 die, or by my side. Never shalt thou again behold my face here. 441 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:05.880 Atter go consort with friends who like a madman for their mate. Exit 442 00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:07.800 hamon end of part one.