Medea and Electra: Notes

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... Phaedra's love for him . 1430 Phaedra's love for you will not slip into silence : a final twist to the theme of silence . Phaedra's love is guaranteed not silence but eternal fame . 1437-8 It is not proper . . . die : the goddess ...

... cruda sorte ! o Or già sta per spirar . Ohime ! stelle che sento ? P Qual fulmine sul cor dal ciel mi piomba , ad balma agitata in sen da fier dolore Tutta qui s'abbandona al suo furore . Smarrita quest ' alma Fra sdegno e dolore Non ...

... cruda sorte ! Or già sta per spirar . Ohimè ! ... stelle ... che sento ? Qual fulmine sul cor dal ciel mi piomba , L'alma agitata in sen da fier dolore , Tutta quì s ' abbandona al suo furore . Smarrita quest ' alma Fra sdegno e dolore ...

... hand , in which she is also holding the sword , as the raidaywyós ( boy's ... killing one of her sons , who is making a gesture of supplication toward her ... persona as a wronged woman and thus setting her act in a more complex ...

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... Macbeth, and here the supernatural elements added by the Weird Sisters suggest the influence of the Ovidian or Senecan Medea even more compellingly. Lady Macbeth's ruthlessness is often seen as echoing that of the Senecan Medea ...

Medea in English Literature, 1558–1688 K. Heavey. she then escapes by taking advantage of her divine origins, and summoning a dragondrawn chariot: in Euripides' play she seeks sanctuary with Aegeus, king of Crete, an element of the story ...

... Creon : You alone [ où ... μoúvn ] among these Cadmeans see this . Antigone : They [ xoûto1 ] see it too ; but they ... argument with his father , Haemon cautions Creon : " I can hear in the dark how the city mourns for this girl " ( 692 ...

... Man without Qualities Musil answers his own question - neither Oedipus nor Orestes will dominate the action . Electra will play the lead . An icon of Austrian literary modernism , Musil ( 1880-1942 ) was born in ... MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES 97.

... Hamlet's hesitations and vacillations , which have often caused him and not Oedipus to be selected as the ideal German archetype , are no longer considered ideal by Heiner Müller ( 1929-1995 ) .5 In his own " Oedipus commentary , " the ...

... animal had been sacrificed , most of its meat was eaten by those making the ... speech ( 245-302 ) What new insights has Electra's speech given us into her ... persuasive : the emotional appeal of Electra's lyrical passages or the ...

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... killing Aegisthus at his sacrifice for the continued prosperity of his ... (hand) + viQw (wash) 793-4 Orestes claims to have just washed in running ... persona as the anonymous traveler, of the importance of sacrifice to the community, but ...

... knowing it. Each kingdom had been so busy with its own affairs that there seemed to be no time, and no need, for news of anything outside Hellas. Now, with the men gone, and the old urgency gone, all the drilling finished,

... Gulfport marina . The man seated in the chair facing us was old enough to be nearing retire- ment . Slim and white haired , he exuded professionalism . The deep - tanned , wrin- kled face etched a career at sea , or the local country ...

... the Devil's Kitchen , as they prefer to call it . It is no wonder ; and our travelers seemed almost to imbibe it as they sat and gazed , and gazed upon it . They lingered thus entranced till the early gray dawn of the morning , when the ...

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... Eugene Canseliet, L 'Alchimie expliquee sur ses textes classiques (Paris: J.J. Pauvert. 1972), p. 202. 61 Ledoux (dit de Claves), Dictionnaire hermétique (Paris: D'Houry, 1695; Paris: Gutenberg Reprints, 1979), def. "Toison d'or." 62 ...

... wofuls husband comes aliue , No husband now , the wight that did vphold That name of husband is now quite orethrowne , And I am left a haplesse Widower . Old Ar . Faine would I speake , if griete would suffer me . Old Lus . As Maister ...

... Portuguese Medea: Eduarda Dionísio, Antes que a noite venha (Before the Night Comes) Maria de Fátima Silva Antes1 que a noite venha, by the Portuguese author Eduarda Dionísio,2 is a set of four monologues on the theme of love and death ...