From Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

The seer?--Then tear thy terrors like a veil And take free breath. A seer? No human thing Born on the earth hath power for conjuring Truth from the dark of God. Come, I will tell An old tale. There came once an oracle To Laius: I say not from the God Himself, but from the priests and seers who trod His sanctuary: if ever son were bred From him and me, by that son's hand, it said, (Sidenote: vv. 714-732) Laius must die. And he, the tale yet stays Among us, at the crossing of three ways Was slain by robbers, strangers. And my son-- God's mercy!--scarcely the third day was gone When Laius took, and by another's hand Out on the desert mountain, where the land Is rock, cast him to die. Through both his feet A blade of iron they drove. Thus did we cheat Apollo of his will. My child could slay No father, and the King could cast away The fear that dogged him, by his child to die Murdered.--Behold the fruits of prophecy! Which heed not thou! God needs not that a seer Help him, when he would make his dark things clear. (OEDIPUS: Woman, what turmoil hath thy story wrought Within me! What up-stirring of old thought!) What thought? It turns thee like a frightened thing.

Jocasta Monologue from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

Rehearse Jocasta's monologue