Orestes Monologue from Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

From Andromache: A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray

male · melancholic · 1:16 min

(Looking full at her.) More beautiful than the flowers and the sunlight, so that in dreams her eyes haunted him. (MOLOSSUS: Well, and what did he do?) He took his ship, with a hundred men well armed, and hid them in a bay of Iberia. And he went up alone to the king's castle and saw the woman. For he was not sure if she was really so beautiful, and wanted to see her again very close. So he stayed in the king's house and made a plot to bear her away. (MOLOSSUS: But what happened?) I said it was but a boy's story. The Chalcidian knew not what had happened. Some said he won the queen to his ship, and fled away, wandering; and some said she told the king of his plotting, and they slew him there in the banquet hall. (A slight pause.) So perchance even Orestes has found his peace; or, perchance he is still an outcast man, with a new feud following him.

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