Excerpt from Medea AT the commencement of the Opera, Lamia and Clyte, lady attendants of Dirce, strive to remove a feeling of despondency which affects her, from a fear lest Jason should eventually prove as false to her as he has been to Medea. Jason, accompanied by the Argonauts, his friends and warriors, arrives at the court of Creon, and, in triumphal procession, lays the golden fleece at the feet of Dirce and Creon. Whilst Jason is felicitating himself on his release from Medea and approaching union with Dirce, ...
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Excerpt from Medea AT the commencement of the Opera, Lamia and Clyte, lady attendants of Dirce, strive to remove a feeling of despondency which affects her, from a fear lest Jason should eventually prove as false to her as he has been to Medea. Jason, accompanied by the Argonauts, his friends and warriors, arrives at the court of Creon, and, in triumphal procession, lays the golden fleece at the feet of Dirce and Creon. Whilst Jason is felicitating himself on his release from Medea and approaching union with Dirce, Medea appears, demands of Creon that he should break off the proposed marriage, and bitterly reproaches Jason for his infidelity; but vain is her appeal: Creon is deaf to her prayers, bids her begone, and the first act closes with mutual recrimination between Medea and her recreant husband. In the second act, Medea renews her appeal to Creon, but succeeds only in extracting permission to remain one day longer in his dominions, upon pain of death. Her misery is next heightened by the determination of Jason to retain his two sons, and for ever part them from their wretched mother. Profiting by the day's delay, Medea assumes an air'of submission, and resolves to accomplish her revenge by causing a mantle and coronet, which have been steeped in deadly poison, to be presented by her children to Dirce, and in her agony of mind at witnessing the bridal procession of Jason and Dirce, determines to take the lives of her two children, and thus torture the heart of her unfaithful consort. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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