_Chor._ O seed of Atreus, after many woes,
Thou hast come forth, thy freedom hardly won,
By this emprise made perfect!
[1] The quotations of Sophocles are (mostly) from Plumptre's
translation.
THE ELECTRA OF EURIPIDES[1]
PROLOGUE
_The Scene is in front of a Peasant's Cottage: the Centre is the door
of the Cottage, the scene on the two sides of it represents the ways to
fields and to the river. Time: early Morning, the stars still shining._
_Enter from the Cottage the Peasant on his way to his day's work_. In
the form of a Morning Prayer to the stream Inachus, he makes known the
situation of affairs, the murder of Agamemnon, etc.--and in particular
how Aegisthus, fearing lest some nobleman might marry Electra and be
her avenger, had forced her into wedlock with himself, a peasant,
honest but in the lowest poverty. But he is too good a friend to his
master's house and to the absent Orestes to wrong Electra; he has been
a husband only in name, to give her the shelter of his humble roof.
_Enter Electra from the Cottage with a watering pot_: not seeing the
Peasant she in a similar soliloquy announces that she is on her way to
the river to prosecute her unnatural toil.
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