Lines Tradedy

Front 1

Oh hail, blaze of the darkness, harbinger of day’s shining, and of processionals and dance and choirs of multitudes in Argos for this day of grace.

Back 1

Watchman to Audience; p 5 lines 21-23
A Agamemnon

Front 2

But when necessity’s yoke was put upon him he changed, and from the heart the breath came bitter…

Back 2

Chorus to Audience p 11 lines 217-18

A Agamemnon

Front 3

I tell you, as a man, not god, to reverence me.

Back 3

Agamemnon to Clytemnestra p 33 line 925


A Agamenon

Front 4

We two must die, yet die not vengeless by the gods. For there shall come one to avenge us also, born to slay his mother, and to wreak death for his father’s blood.

Back 4

Cassandra to Chorus / Audience p 46 lines 1278-81


A Agamemnon

Front 5

These are howls of impotent rage; forget them, dearest; you and I have the power; we two shall bring good order to our house at least.

Back 5

Clytemnestra to Aegisthus p 60 lines 1672-3

A Agamemnon

Front 6

must dare something atrocious, spectacular, so bloody, and altogether beastly that my own brother will be driven to envy, even as he suffers its dire effects.

Back 6

Atreus to Chorus / Audience p 52 lines 197-201


Thyestes

Front 7

Better to paddle in quiet waters dappled by sunlight that drifts through the leaves of the overhanging trees and enjoy the talk of our friends and the laughter of children

Back 7

Chorus to Audience p 59 lines 388-91

Thyestes

Front 8

don’t believe my brother’s promise. I don’t trust him.

Back 8

Thyestes to Tantalus & his other two sons p 60 lines 423-4

Thestes

Front 9

Then, like a butcher, he hacked the limbs from the trunks, cracked their bones, and stripped off the flesh he fixed on cooking spits and set the fire to turn and drip.

Back 9

Messenger to Chorus p 72 lines 762-5

Thyestes

Front 10

Is there no justice? Are there no gods to keep such foulness away from the world?

Back 10

Is there no justice? Are there no gods to keep such foulness away from the world?

Thyestes

Front 11

If Tantalus hungers and thirsts, my stomach writhes in philosophical nausea: my three children, my own flesh, have I eaten.

Back 11

Thyestes’ Ghost to Audience (Aegisthus) p 174 lines 26-8

Front 12

…prominence and power invite a terrible testing of any flaw

Back 12

Chorus to Audience p 176 lines 95-6

S Agamemnon

Front 13

Passion and patience are always strangers…I am tossed back and forth among the capricious winds of the spirit’s storms.

Back 13

Clytemnestra to Nurse p 177 lines 131, 134-6

S Agamemnon

Front 14

Never mind your own transgressions, which are trivial. Think of his—arrogant, public, proud, impossible flauntings of bad faith and bad conduct.

Back 14

Aegisthus to Clytemnestra p 181 lines 246-9
S Agamemnon

Front 15

…where is there justice, if fishermen and traders ply the sea in relative safety, while we, the heroes of Troy, as if of no account, could be tossed away by unthinking walls of water and mindless winds?

Back 15

Eurybates to Clytemnestra / Chorus / Audience p 190 lines 514-18



s Agamemnon

Front 16

Why seems it so particular with thee?

Back 16

Gertrude to Hamlet 1.2 p 36

Hamlet

Front 17

For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood…

Back 17

Laertes to Ophelia 1.3 p 43


hamlet

Front 18

If thou didst ever thy dear father love…Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Back 18

Ghost to Hamlet 1.5 p 53


hamlet

Front 19

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.

Back 19

Polonius to Hamlet 2.2 p 78


hamlet

Front 20

Hamlet, thou art slain. No med’cine in the world can do thee good.

Back 20

Laertes to Hamlet 5.2 p 168


hamlet

Front 21

Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Back 21

Horatio to Hamlet / onlookers 5.2 p 170


hamlet

Front 22

Everything they have is covered with blood

Back 22

George to Ann p 47



all my sons

Front 23

Your brother’s alive, darling, because if he’s dead, your father killed him. Do you understand me now? As long as you live, that boy is alive. God does not let a son be killed by his father.

Back 23

Mother (Kate Keller) to Chris p 57


all my sons

Front 24

i was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me?

Back 24

Chris to Joe p 59


all my sons

Front 25

I’m not going out of here alone. There’s no life for me that way. I want you to set him free. And then I promise you, everything will end, and we’ll go away, and that’s all.

Back 25

Ann to Mother (Kate) p 64

all my sons

Front 26

Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were.

Back 26

Keller (Joe) to Mother (Kate) p 68

all my sons