Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 73 of 118
The Medea — page 73: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running dialogue from what appears to be a dramatic adaptation of the classical tragedy *Medea*. The text shows a scene where an Attendant enters with two children to inform Medea that her children have been spared banishment and the royal bride has accepted her gifts. Medea's responses—"Ah God!" and "O God, have mercy!"—suggest she receives this ostensibly good news with distress rather than relief, indicating dramatic irony typical of melodramatic sensation fiction. The page number "57" suggests this is mid-narrative in a serialized work.
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MEDEA | $7 Who know’st not, suing For thy child’s undoing, And, on her thou lovest, for a doom untold ? How art thou fallen from thy place of old! Others. O Mother, Mother, what hast thou to reap, When the harvest cometh, between wake and sleep? For a heart unslaken, For a troth forsaken, Lo, babes that call thee from a bloody deep: And thy love returns not. Get thee forth and weep! |Anter the ATTENDANT with the two CHILDREN: MEDEA comes out from the house. ATTENDANT. Mistress, these children from their banishment Are spared. The royal bride hath mildly bent Her hand to accept thy gifts, and all is now Peace for the children.— Ha, why standest thou Confounded, when good fortune draweth near ? MEDEA. Ah God! | ATTENDANT. This chimes not with the news I bear. MEDEA. O God, have mercy! Eomichbooks.com