Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 19 of 118
The Medea — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a page of running prose from a dramatic adaptation, specifically the opening scene of *Medea*. The page shows stage directions indicating the setting is outside Medea's house in Corinth, followed by a soliloquy spoken by the Nurse. The verse monologue recounts the mythological background of Medea's arrival in Corinth with Jason and their children, then laments that Jason has now abandoned his family. The text is written in blank verse with classical allusions to the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece.
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MEDEA The Scene represents the front of MEDEA’s House in Corinth. A road to the right leads towards the royal castle, one on the left to the harbour. The NURSE zs discovered alone. NURSE. Would God no Argo e’er had winged the seas To Colchis through the blue Symplégades : No shaft of riven pine in Pélion’s glen | Shaped that first oar-blade in the hands of men Valiant, who won, to save King Pelias’ vow, The fleece All-golden! Never then, I trow, Mine own princess, her spirit wounded sore With love of Jason, to the encastled shore Had sailed of old I6lcos: never wrought The daughters of King Pelias, knowing not, To spill their father’s hfe: nor fled in fear, Hunted for that fierce sin, to Corinth here With Jason and her babes. This folk at need Stood friend to her, and she in word and deed Served alway Jason. Surely this doth bind, ~ Through all ill days, the hurts of humankind, When man and woman in one music move. But now, the world is angry, and true love Sick as with poison. Jason doth forsake My mistress and his own two sons, to make ”~ ‘t Eomichbooks-com