WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:05.440 Part one antigony, and is many before the palace gates. 2 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:09.519 Is manie, sister of my blood and heart? Seest thou 3 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:13.279 how zeus would in our lives fulfill the weird of Oedipus, 4 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:18.239 a world of woes. For what of pain, affliction, outrage, 5 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:22.359 shame is lacking in our fortunes thine and mine? And 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:26.399 now this proclamation of to day made by our Captain 7 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.600 General to the state, what can its purport be? Didst 8 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.880 hear and heed? Or art thou deaf? 9 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:36.399 When friends are banned as foes to me antigony? No 10 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.320 word of friends has come or glad or grievous. Since 11 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.960 we twain were reft of our two brethren in one 12 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:46.479 day by double fratricide, and since in the night our 13 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:50.520 argive leaguers fled, no later news has reached me to 14 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:52.719 in spirit or deject I. 15 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:55.759 Know twas so, and therefore summoned thee beyond the gates 16 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:58.000 to breathe it in thine ear? What is it? 17 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:00.759 Some dark secret, stir thy breast? 18 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:04.680 What but the thought of our two brothers dead, the 19 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:08.480 one by Creon graced with funeral rites, the other disappointed 20 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:12.920 Hetaiocles he hath consigned to earth as fame reports with 21 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:17.120 obsequies that use and won't ordain, so gracing him among 22 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.040 the dead below. But polyneses a dishonored course. So by report, 23 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.640 the royal edict runs, no man may bury him, or 24 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:31.719 may lament must leave him tombless and unwept, a feast 25 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:36.000 for kites to scent afar and swoop upon. Such is 26 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.319 the edict. If reports speak true of Creon, our most 27 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:44.959 noble Creon aimed at thee and me aye, me too, 28 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:48.640 and Anon, he will be here to promulgate for such 29 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:51.840 as have not heard his mandate. Tis in sooth no 30 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:55.120 passing humor. For the edict says, whoe'er transgresses shall be 31 00:01:55.200 --> 00:02:00.280 stoned to death. So stands it with us. Now tis 32 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.879 thine to show if thou art worthy of thy blood 33 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:03.840 or base. 34 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.080 But how my rash fond sister, in such case can 35 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.639 I do anything to make or mar say? 36 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.560 Wilt thou aid me and a bet? 37 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:16.360 Decide in what bold venture? What is in thy thought? 38 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.120 Lend me a hand to bear the corpse away? 39 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:20.960 What bury him? 40 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:26.479 Despite the interdict, my brother, And though thou deny him thine, 41 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:29.240 no man shall say that I betrayed a brother. 42 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:32.240 Wilt thou persist? Though Creon has forbid? 43 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:35.000 What right has he to keep me from mine own? 44 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:40.199 Bethink THEE Sister, of our father's fate, abhorred, dishonored, self, 45 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:45.400 convinced of sin, blinded himself his executioner. Think of his 46 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.800 mother wife, ill sorted names, done by a noose, herself 47 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.560 had twined to death, and last our hapless brethren in 48 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.879 one day, both in a mutual destiny, involved self slaughtered, 49 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:02.039 both the slayer and the slain. Bethink, THEE Sister, We 50 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.840 are left alone, shall we not perish? Wretchedest of all, 51 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:09.159 if in defiance of the law we cross a monarch's will, 52 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.520 weak women, think of that not framed by nature to 53 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:17.719 contend with men. Remember this too, that the stronger rules, 54 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.280 we must obey his orders, these or worse. Therefore, I 55 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:26.439 plead compulsion and entreat the dead to pardon. I perforce 56 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:30.400 obey the powers that be. Tis foolishness. I ween to 57 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:32.520 overstep in aught the golden mien. 58 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:36.199 I urge no more, nay wert thou willing? Still I 59 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.360 would not welcome such a fellowship. Go thine own way. 60 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.400 Myself will bury him? How sweet to die? In such 61 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:47.479 employ to rest sister and brother linked in love's embrace, 62 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:50.840 a sinless sinner band a while on earth, but by 63 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:54.800 the dead commend it, and with them I shall abide forever. 64 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:59.960 As for THEE scorn if thou wilt the eternal laws. 65 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.680 Of I scorn them not but to defy the state 66 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.520 or break her ordinance, I have no skill. 67 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.680 A specious pretext. I will go alone to lap my 68 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.240 dearest brother in the grave. 69 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:15.400 My poor fond sister, how I fear. 70 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:17.240 For THEE, O waste no fears on me. 71 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.160 Look to thyself at least let no man know of 72 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:24.680 thine intent. But keep it close and secret as will I. 73 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.199 Oh tell it, Sister, I shall hate THEE more if 74 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.279 thou proclaim it not to all the town. 75 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.279 Thou hast a fiery soul for numbing work. 76 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:35.959 I pleasure those whom I would leapest. 77 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.480 Please if thou succeed, but thou art doomed to fail. 78 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:43.120 When strength shall fail me, yes, but not before. 79 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:45.720 But if the venture's hopeless, why say. 80 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.199 Sister, forbear? Or I shall hate THEE soon, and the 81 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.759 dead man will hate THEE too with cause, Say I 82 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.720 am mad, and give my madness rein to wreck itself. 83 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.839 The worst that can befall is but to die and 84 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:00.959 honorable death. 85 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.199 Have thine own way, then tis a mad endeavor. Yet 86 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:10.319 to thy lovers, Thou art dear as ever excellent sunbeam. 87 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.720 Of all that ever dawn upon our seven gated TheBus 88 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:18.399 the brightest ray O ay a golden day, How fair 89 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:23.399 thy light o'er dirks fountain shone, speeding upon their headlong 90 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:28.800 homeward course far quicker than they came, the Argy force 91 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.480 putting to flight, the Argon cheves the host wi Scutcheon's 92 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:39.360 white against our land. The proud invader came to vindicate 93 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:45.680 fell Polynychus, claim like to an eagle, swooping low on pinions, 94 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:50.439 white as new fallen snow, with clanging scream a horse, 95 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:56.279 they plume his crest, the aspiring lord of Argus onward crest, 96 00:05:56.959 --> 00:06:01.439 hovering around our city walls. He waits his spearmen raven 97 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:05.560 at our seven gates. But ere torch our crown of 98 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:10.040 towers could burn ere they had tasted of our blood. 99 00:06:10.319 --> 00:06:14.439 They turn, forced by the dragon in their rear, the 100 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:19.040 din of Ar's panic struck. They hear for sef so 101 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.879 hatest the Braggart's poast beheld that gold bespangl'd host as 102 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:29.040 at the gold the pen they uprais'd. He struck them 103 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:35.959 with his fault, lightning blaze to earthy from earth. Rebounding down, 104 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.920 he crash'd the fire brand from his impious hand was 105 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:45.800 dash'd as like a backic reveler. On he came out, 106 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:50.720 breathing hate and flame, and totter'd elsewhere in the field. 107 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:56.439 Here there great area, like a war horse wheel beneath 108 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:02.360 his car down thrust our foemen beg the dust. Seven 109 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:07.600 captains at our seven gates thunder'd for each a champion waits, 110 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:13.000 each left behind his armor, bright trophy for sevs who 111 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:17.839 turns the fight, save two alone that ill star pair 112 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:22.959 one mother to one father bear who lance in rest, 113 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:28.639 one gainst the other drave and both perish'd. Brother slain 114 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:35.759 by brother. Now victory to TheBus, returns again and smiles 115 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:40.720 upon her chariot circled plane. Now let feast and festal 116 00:07:40.920 --> 00:07:44.360 should memories of war blot out. Let us to the 117 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:49.639 temples throng dance as sing the live night long God 118 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.000 of TheBus. Lead thou the round bacchus shaker of the ground. 119 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:01.000 Let us end our revels here lo creon, our new 120 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:06.519 lord rosneer crown by this strange chance, our King, what 121 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:12.279 I'm marvel pondering why this summons? Wherefore call us his 122 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:17.600 elders one and all, beating us with him, debate on 123 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.680 some grave concern of state. 124 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:25.120 And your creon elders. The gods have righted once again 125 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:28.839 our storm tossed ship of state now safe in port. 126 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:32.879 But you, by special summons I convened as my most 127 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:37.399 trusted counselors, first because I knew you loyal to lay 128 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.639 us of old again when Oedipus restored our state, both 129 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.600 while he ruled and when his rule was ore, ye 130 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:48.799 still were constant to the royal line. Now that his 131 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:53.600 two sons perished in one day, brother by brother, murderously 132 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:58.000 slain by right of kinship to the prince's dead, I 133 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:03.000 claim and hold the throne and sovereignty. Yet tis no 134 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:06.559 easy matter to discern the temper of a man his 135 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.879 mind and will till he be proved by exercise of power. 136 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:16.360 And in my case, if one who reigns supreme swerve 137 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.840 from the highest policy tongue tied by fear of consequence, 138 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:25.200 that man I hold and ever held the basest of 139 00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:28.360 the base. And I condemn the man who sets his 140 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:34.159 friend before his country. For myself I call to witness Zeus, 141 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:39.399 whose eyes are everywhere. If I perceive some mischievous design 142 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.399 to sap the State, I will not hold my tongue, 143 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.720 nor would I reckon as my private friend a public foe. Well, 144 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:52.039 knowing that the state is the good ship that holds 145 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:57.519 our fortunes, all farewell to friendship if she suffers wreck. 146 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.480 Such is the policy b which I seek to serve 147 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.440 the Commons, And conformably I have proclaimed an edict as 148 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:11.080 concerns the sons of Oedipus Eteocles, who, in his country's 149 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.879 battle fought and fell the foremost champion. Duly bury him 150 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:21.159 with all observances and ceremonies that are the girden of 151 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:26.639 the heroic dead. But for the miscreant exile, who returned, 152 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:30.960 minded in flames and ashes, to blot out his father's 153 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.120 city and his father's gods, and glut his vengeance with 154 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:39.799 his kinsman's blood, or drag them captive at his chariot wheels. 155 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:45.000 For Polyneses, tis ordained that none shall give him burial 156 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:49.080 or make mourn for him, but leave his corpse unburied, 157 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.960 to be meet for dogs and carrion crows a ghastly sight. 158 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.679 So am I purposed. Never by my will shall miscreants 159 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:03.320 take precedence of true men. But all good patriots, alive 160 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.159 or dead, shall be by me preferred and honored. 161 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:12.440 Son of minorceps. Thus thou wilst to deal with him 162 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:16.600 who loath and him who loved our state, Thy word 163 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:21.000 is low. Thou can'st dispose of us the living as 164 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:23.000 thou waste as of the dead. 165 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.759 See, then ye execute what I or deain. 166 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.399 On younger shoulders lay dis grievous charge. 167 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.799 Fear not I have posted guards to watch the corpse. 168 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:36.639 But further duty wouldst thou lay on us. 169 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.279 Not to connive at disobedience. 170 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.639 No man is mad enough to court his death. 171 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:46.919 The penalty is death. Yet hope of gain hath lured 172 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:50.559 men to their ruin. Oftentimes enter guard. 173 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:54.440 My Lord, I will not make pretense to pant and 174 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:59.679 puff some lightfooted messenger. In sooth My soul, beneath its 175 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:03.360 pack of thought, made many a halt, and turned and 176 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:08.720 turned again. For conscience plied her spur and curb thy turns. 177 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:13.600 Why hurry headlong to thy fate, poor fool, she whispered. 178 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:18.559 Then again, if Creon learned this from another, thou wilt 179 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:23.000 rue it worse. Thus leisurely I hastened on my road. 180 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:27.919 Much thought extends affurlong to a league. But in the 181 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:33.360 end the forward voice prevailed to face thee. I will speak, 182 00:12:33.679 --> 00:12:37.759 though I say nothing for plucking courage from despair me thought. 183 00:12:38.559 --> 00:12:41.960 Let the worst hap thou canst but meet thy fate. 184 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.159 What is thy news? Why this despondency? 185 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:49.080 Let me premise a word about myself. I neither did 186 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:52.759 the deed, nor saw it done, Nor were it just 187 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:54.600 that I should come to harm. 188 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.120 Thou art good at parry and canst fence about some 189 00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.840 matter of grave import? 190 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:04.360 Has this plane the bearer of dread tidings needs must quake? 191 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.320 Then, sir, shoot thy bolt and get thee gone? 192 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:12.840 Well it must out. The corpse is buried. Someone e'en 193 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:17.039 now besprinkled it with thirsty dust, performed the proper ritual, 194 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:18.840 and was gone. 195 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:23.360 What sayest thou, who hath dared to do this thing? 196 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.360 I cannot tell, For there was ne'er a trace of 197 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:33.039 pick or mattic, hard unbroken ground, without a scratch or rut, 198 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.919 of chariot wheels, no sign that human hands had been 199 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.360 at work. When the first century of the Morning Watch 200 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:44.720 gave the alarm, we all were terror stricken. The corpse 201 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:48.720 had vanished, not interred in earth, but strewn with dust, 202 00:13:49.159 --> 00:13:51.639 as if by one who sought to avert the course 203 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:56.440 that haunts the unburied dead of hound or ravening jackal. 204 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:57.440 Not a sign. 205 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:02.720 Thereat rose an angry wall of words. Guard railed, guard, 206 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:06.240 and blows were like to end it. For none was 207 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:09.799 there to part us, each in turn suspected, but the 208 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:13.759 guilt brought home to none. From lack of evidence. We 209 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:17.919 challenged each the ordeal or to handle red hot iron 210 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.639 or passed through fire, affirming on our oath our innocence. 211 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:27.159 We neither did the deed ourselves, nor know who did 212 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:31.440 or compassed it. Our quest was at a standstill when 213 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.320 one spake and bowed us all to earth by quivering reeds. 214 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.799 For there was no gain seeing him, or way to 215 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:43.799 escape perdition. Ye are bound to tell the king ye 216 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.919 cannot hide it. So he spake, and he convinced us 217 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:53.399 all So lots were cast, and I, unlucky scapegot drew 218 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.960 the prize. So here I am unwilling and withal unwelcome. 219 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:00.960 No man cares to I knews. 220 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.480 I had misgivings from the first, my leech of something 221 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.720 more than natural at work. 222 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:10.799 Oh, cease you vex me with your battlement. I am 223 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:13.480 like to think you dote in your old age. Is 224 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.399 it not errant folly to pretend that gods would have 225 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:19.799 a thought for this dead man? Did they forsooth award 226 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:24.000 him special grace? And as some benefactor, bury him who 227 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.440 came to fire? There hallowed sanctuaries to sack their shrines, 228 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:33.159 to desolate their land and scout their ordinances. Or perchance 229 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.039 the gods bestow their favors on the bad. No. No, 230 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:42.039 I have long noted malcontents who wagged their heads and 231 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:47.159 kicked against the yoke, misliking these my orders and my rule. 232 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:52.440 Tis they I warrant who suborned my guards by bribes 233 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:57.840 of evils current upon earth. The worst is money. Money 234 00:15:57.960 --> 00:16:02.360 tis that sax cities and drives men forth from hearth 235 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:07.320 and home, warps and seduces native innocence, and breeds a 236 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:12.240 habit of dishonesty. But they who sold themselves shall find 237 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:16.639 their greed outshot the mark and rue it soon or late, 238 00:16:17.559 --> 00:16:21.720 yea as I still revere the dread of Zeus. By Zeus, 239 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:26.600 I swear, except ye find and bring before my presence 240 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.559 here the very man who carried out this lawless burial 241 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:35.600 death for your punishment shall not suffice hanged on a 242 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:40.000 cross alive. Ye first shall make confession of this outrage. 243 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.000 This will teach you what practices are like to serve 244 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.559 your turn. There are some villainies that bring no gain, 245 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:50.720 For by dishonesty the few may thrive, the many come 246 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:52.279 to ruin and disgrace. 247 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:55.720 May I not speak? Or must I turn and go 248 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.200 without a word? 249 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.679 Begone? Canst thou not see that in this question? 250 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:00.360 Or me? 251 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:04.440 Where my lord is it? Thy ears that suffer? Or 252 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:05.119 thy heart? 253 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.279 Why seek to probe and find the seat of pain? 254 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.599 I go? Thine ears this miscreant? Thy mind? 255 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.920 What an inveterate babbler get thee gone. 256 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.599 Babler perchance, but innocent of the. 257 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:23.400 Crime twice guilty, having sold thy soul for gain. 258 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:27.440 Alas how sad, when reason is reason. 259 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:31.119 Wrong, go quibble with thy reason. If thou fail'st to 260 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.720 find these malefactors, thou shalt own the wages of ill 261 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:36.640 gotten gains is death. 262 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:37.960 Exit creon. 263 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:41.400 I pray he may be found, but court or not, 264 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.599 and fortune must determine that thou never shalt see me 265 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:50.319 here returning. That is sure. For pastoral hope or thought, 266 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.200 I have escaped, and for my safety ere the God's 267 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.880 much thanks Exit gurd. 268 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:01.119 Many wonders there be, but not more wonders than o'er 269 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:05.799 the surging sea, with the widening south wind Wan through 270 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.480 the foam of the firth, man makes his perilous way, 271 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:13.160 And the eldest of deer is Earth that knows not 272 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:18.599 toil nor decay. Ever, he furrows and scores as his 273 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:23.519 steam year in year out. With breed of the yoked horse, 274 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:30.720 the plowshare turneth about, the light witted birds of the air, 275 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.559 the beasts of the world, and the wood he traps 276 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.759 with his woven snare, and the broad of the briny flood. 277 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:44.240 Master of cunning, he the savage bull, and the heart 278 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:49.519 who roams the mountain free are tain'd by his infinite art, 279 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:54.480 And the shaggy rough main steed is broken to bear 280 00:18:54.599 --> 00:18:59.519 the bit speech and the wind swift speed of counsel 281 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:02.960 and sin he quit. He hath learn'd for himself all 282 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.480 these and the arrowy reign to fly, and the knipping 283 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.559 airs that freeze neath the open winter sky. He hath 284 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.480 provision for all felt plague. He hath learned to endure 285 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.319 safe whatever may befall. Yet for death he hath found 286 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:27.640 no cure, passing the wilest flight. Thought are the coming 287 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:31.359 and skill that guide man now to the light, but 288 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:36.319 now to counsels of ill. If he honors the laws 289 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:39.400 of the land and revers the gods of the state, 290 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:44.960 proudly his city shall stand. But a sitiless, outcast I rape, 291 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.240 who so bold in his pride from the path of 292 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:53.000 right doth depart. Never may I sit by his side 293 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:58.519 or share the thoughts of his heart. What strange vision 294 00:19:58.759 --> 00:20:04.319 meets my eye fills me with a wild surprise. Sure 295 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:10.880 I know her? Sure tis she the maid Antigony, hapless 296 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:17.400 child of hapless sire. Didst thou recklessly conspire madly brave 297 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:23.039 the King's decree? Therefore are they hailing thee. 298 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:25.000 Enter guard bringing antigony? 299 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.400 Here it is the culpric taken in the act of 300 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.839 giving burial. But where's the king? 301 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:30.839 There? 302 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.400 From the palace he returns in time, enter creon. 303 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:37.559 Why is my presence timely what has chanced. 304 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.119 No man, my lord should make a vow, For if 305 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:43.960 he ever swears he will not do a thing, his 306 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.599 after thoughts belie his first resolve. When from the hailstorm 307 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.920 of thy threats I fled, I swear thou wouldst not 308 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.960 see me here again. But the wild rapture of a 309 00:20:55.039 --> 00:21:00.759 glad surprise intoxicates. And so I'm herefore sworn. And here's 310 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.559 my prisoner, caught in a very act decking the grave. 311 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:09.279 No lottery this time, this prize is mine by right 312 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.920 of treasure trove. So take her, judge, her, rack her 313 00:21:14.200 --> 00:21:18.240 if thou wilt, She's thine, my liege. But I may 314 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.559 rightly claim hence to depart well, quit of all these ills. 315 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:24.960 Say how dost thou arrest the maid? 316 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.200 And where burying the man? There's nothing more to tell. 317 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:33.079 Hast thou thy wits, or knowest thou what thou sayest I. 318 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:37.319 Saw this woman burying the corpse against thy orders? Is 319 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:38.680 that clear and plain? 320 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:43.119 But how was she surprised and caught in the act. 321 00:21:43.279 --> 00:21:47.440 It happen'd Thus, no sooner had we come, driven from 322 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:51.160 thy presence by those awful threats, than straight we swept 323 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:54.319 away all trace of dust and bared the clammy body. 324 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:57.920 Then we sat high on the ridge to windward of 325 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:01.039 the stench, while each man kept his fellow alert and 326 00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:05.400 rated roundly the sluggard if he chanced to nap. So 327 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:09.160 all night long we watch'd until the sun stood high 328 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:13.680 in heaven, and his blazing beams smote us. A sudden 329 00:22:13.680 --> 00:22:17.160 Whirlvin then upraised a cloud of dust that blotted out 330 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:21.119 the sky, and swept the plain, and stripped the woodland's bare, 331 00:22:21.599 --> 00:22:25.720 and shook the firmament. We clos'd our eyes and waited 332 00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:30.200 till a heaven set plague should pass. At last it ceased, 333 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:35.759 and lo there stood this maid a piercing cry. She utter'd, 334 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:39.400 sad and shrill, as when the mother bird beholds her 335 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:44.119 nest robb'd of its nestings. Even so, the maid wailed 336 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.799 as she saw the body stripp'd and bare, and curs'd 337 00:22:47.799 --> 00:22:51.960 the ruffians who had done this deed. Anon. She gathered 338 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:56.960 handfuls of dry dust. Then, holding high a well wrought brazen, 339 00:22:57.160 --> 00:23:01.599 urned thrice on the dead. She poured a lush we 340 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:06.359 at the sight swooped down on her, and seized our quarry. Undismayed. 341 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:10.039 She stood and when we text her with the former crime, 342 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:16.079 and this she discerned nothing. I was glad and grieved 343 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:20.799 for tis most sweet escape oneself scot free, and yet 344 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:24.519 to bring disaster to a friend is grievous. Take it 345 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.880 all in all, I deem man's first duty is to 346 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:28.839 serve himself. 347 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:33.880 Speak girl, with head bent low and downcast eyes. Dost 348 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:36.240 thou plead guilty or deny the deed? 349 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:39.799 Guilty? I did it. I deny it. 350 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.240 Not to guard Sarah. 351 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:44.799 Begone with it, thou wilt, and thank thy luck that 352 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:48.839 thou hast escaped a heavy charge to antigony. Now answer 353 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:53.400 this plain question, yes or no? Wist thou acquainted with 354 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.240 the interdict. 355 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:58.359 I knew, all knew. How should I fail to know? 356 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.640 And yet wert old enough to break the law? 357 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:06.519 Yea, For these laws were not ordained of Zeus, and 358 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:11.720 she who sits enthroned with gods below justice enacted not 359 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.880 these human laws. Nor did I deem that thou, a 360 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:19.839 mortal man, couldst by a breath annull and override the immutable, 361 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:23.720 unwritten laws of heaven. They were not born to day 362 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:29.359 nor yesterday. They die not, and none knoweth whence they sprang. 363 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.720 I was not like who feared no mortals frown to 364 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:37.000 disobey these laws and so provoke the wrath of heaven. 365 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.720 I knew that I must die e'en, hadst thou not 366 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:44.480 proclaimed it. And if death is thereby hastened, I shall 367 00:24:44.519 --> 00:24:48.000 count it gain, for death is gained to him whose life, 368 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:51.680 like mine, is full of misery. Thus my lot appears 369 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:55.359 not sad but blissful. For had I endured to leave 370 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:59.240 my mother's son unburied there, I should have grieved with reason. 371 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.000 But not now. And if in this thou judgest me 372 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.920 a fool, bethinks the judge of follies, not a quit. 373 00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:10.359 A stubborn daughter of a stubborn sire, this ill, stout 374 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:12.920 maiden peeks against the Greeks. 375 00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:16.920 Well let her know. The stubbornest of wills are soonest, 376 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:20.519 bended as the hardest iron, or heated in the fire 377 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:26.720 to brittleness, flies soonest into fragments, shivered through a snaffle, 378 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:31.400 curbs the fieriest steed. And he who in subjection lives 379 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:36.480 must needs be meek. But this proud girl, in insolence, 380 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.759 well schooled, first overstepped the established law, and then a 381 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:46.319 second and worse act of insolence, she boasts and glories 382 00:25:46.519 --> 00:25:52.119 in her wickedness. Now if she thus can float authority unpunished, 383 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.799 I am woman, she the man. But though she be 384 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.400 my sister's child, or nearer of kin than all who 385 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:02.960 worship at my hearth, nor she, nor yet her sister, 386 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.160 shall escape the utmost penalty. For both thy hold as 387 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:12.000 arch conspirators of equal guilt. Bring forth the elder. Even 388 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:15.119 now I saw her within the palace, frenzied, in distraught, 389 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.519 the workings of the mind, discover oft dark deeds, in 390 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:24.880 darkness schemed before the act. More hateful still the miscreant 391 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:30.079 who seeks, when caught, to make a virtue of a crime, wouldst. 392 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:32.079 Thou do more than slay thy prisoner? 393 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:32.759 Not I? 394 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:35.279 Thy life is mine, and that's enough. 395 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:36.519 Why dally? Then? 396 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.279 To me? 397 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.319 No word of thine is pleasant? God forbid it air 398 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:44.559 should please? Nor am I more acceptable to thee And 399 00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:47.599 yet how otherwise had I achieved a name so glorious 400 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:51.160 as by burying a brother? So my townsmen all would say, 401 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:55.720