Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 24 of 118
The Medea — page 24: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is a page of running dramatic prose—specifically, a scene from a theatrical work attributed to Euripides (page 8). The text consists of dialogue between a Nurse and an unseen Voice (appearing to be a woman in extreme distress), with stage directions. The visible content depicts a woman consumed by rage and suffering, whose "frozen heart" and "uncontrollable / Tempestuous spirit" threaten harm. A Voice from within curses unfathered children and those responsible for her misery. The dramatic language emphasizes her dangerous emotional state and vengeful despair, though the specific plot context remains unclear from this page alone.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
8 EURIPIDES Is darkened. Yester night I saw a flame Stand in her eye, as though she hated them,/ And would I know not what. For sure her wrath Will never turn nor slumber, tillshe hath... Go: and if some must suffer, may it be Not we who love her, but some enemy! VOICE (wethin). Oh shame and pain: O woe is me! Would I could die in my misery! [ Zhe CHILDREN and the ATTENDANT go in. NURSE. Ah, children, hark! She moves again Her frozen heart, her sleeping wrath. In, quick! And never cross her path, Nor rouse that dark eye in its pain; That fell sea-spirit, and the dire Spring of a will untaught, unbowed. Quick, now!— Methinks this weeping cloud Hath in its heart some thunder-frre, Slow gathering, that must flash ere long. I know not how, for ill or well, It turns, this uncontrollable Tempestuous spirit, blind with wrong. VOICE (within). Have I not suffered? Doth it call No tears? . .. Ha, ye beside the wall Unfathered children, God hate you As I am hated, and him, too, That gat you, and this house and all! GEomichbooks (E(@)