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BEST BROAD CAST S OF 1938-39
Mantle. — He bears vengeance in his heart because his wife deserted his home in Greece and fled with the Trojan prince, Paris.
Menelaus. — How bright the sunlight is today . . .
this day, when I shall get into my power,
Helen, my wife. For I am Menelaus, the man of many wrongs.
I came to Troy and brought with me my army, not for that woman’s sake, as people say, but for the man who from my house, and he a guest there, stole away my wife.
Ah, well, with God’s help he has paid the price, he and his country, fallen beneath Greek spears.
I am come to get her . . . wretch. I cannot
speak her name
who was my wife once.
In a hut here, where they house the captives, she is niimbered with the other Trojan women. The men who fought and toiled to win ^er back have given her to me, to kill, or else, if it pleases me, to take her back to Argos.
And it has seemed to me her death in Troy is not the way. I will take her overseas, with swift oars speeding on the ship, and there in Greece give her to those to kill whose dearest died because of her.
{To his men)
Attention ! Forward to the huts.
Seize her and drag her out by that long blooddrenched hair. . . .
{Stops suddenly and controls himself)
And when fair winds come, home with her to Greece.
Sound. — Soldiers begin to force the door of one of the huts; confusion among the women.
Hecuba. — Kill her, Menelaus? You will? Oh, blessings on you! But . . . shun her, do not look at her.
Desire for her will seize you, conquer you.
For through men’s eyes she gets them in her power. She ruins them and ruins cities, too.
A flame comes from her to set on fire homes, magic for death. I know her, so do you and all these who have sxiflered.