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The Medea — page 36: what you’re looking at

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The Medea — page 36: Penny Dreadfuls, 1912

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# Page Description This is a page of running dialogue text (page 20) from a dramatic work. It presents a scene from Euripides' *Medea*, formatted as a play script with character names in capitals followed by their spoken lines. The dialogue shows an exchange between Medea and Creon, touching on themes of exile, loss, love's curse, and suffering. Creon demands Medea leave, threatening his soldiers, while Medea pleads with him. This appears to be a standard dramatic text rather than the sensational penny dreadful promised by the earlier description.

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20 EURIPIDES MEDEA. Home, my lost home, how I desire thee now! CREON. And I mine, and my child, beyond all things. MEDEA. O Loves of man, what curse is on your wings! CREON. Blessing or curse, ’tis as their chances flow. MEDEA. Remember, Zeus, the cause of all this woe! CREON. Oh, rid me of my pains! Up, get thee gone! MEDEA. - What would I with thy pains? I have mine own. CREON. Up: or, ’fore God, my soldiers here shall fling... MEDEA. Not that! Not that!...I1do but pray, O King... Eomicbooks “om |