Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 87 of 118
The Medea — page 87: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Description This is a page of running dramatic dialogue and stage directions from page 71 of what appears to be a theatrical adaptation of *Medea*. The text presents a scene of desperate urgency: a woman calls for help while being pursued with a sword, children cry out in fear, and women beat at a barred door. The dialogue includes a choral passage recounting the mythological madness of Ino, who killed her children and cast herself into the sea, before concluding with stage directions indicating Jason and attendants enter hurriedly. The page depicts a climactic moment of violence and maternal tragedy.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
MEDEA © 71 A Woman. Let me go! I will—Help! Help!—and save them at the last. A Child. . Yes, in God’s name! Help quickly ere we die! The Other Child. She has almost caught me now. She has a sword. | Many of the Women are now beating at the barred door to getin. Others are stand- ing apart. Women at the door. Thou stone, thou thing of iron! Wilt verily Spill with thine hand that life, the vintage stored Of thine own agony? The Other Women. A Mother slew her babes in days of yore, One, only one, from dawn to eventide, Ino, god-maddened, whom the Queen of Heaven Set frenzied, flying to the dark: and she Cast her for sorrow to the wide salt sea, Forth from those rooms of murder unforgiven, _ Wild-footed from a white crag of the shore, And clasping still her children twain, she died. O Love of Woman, charged with sorrow sore, What hast thou wrought upon us? What beside Resteth to tremble for? [Enter hurriedly Jason and Attendants. Eomichbooks.com