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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on September 19, 2007
Literary Imagination 2008 10(1):47-50; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm109
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Jean Racine

From Iphigénie en Aulide

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Act IV, Scene iv
Iphigenia, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Aegina


   CLYTEMNESTRA
 

Come, come, my daughter, you are waited for.
Come thank the loving father who would guide
You to the altar, clinging by his side.


   AGAMEMNON
 

What do I see and hear? Child, tears are pouring
From the eyes you stand before me lowering.
Mother and daughter, sobbing both. What woe!
Arcas, you have betrayed me.


   IPHIGENIA
 

                Father, no!
Calm your disquiet. You are not betrayed.
When you command, be sure you’ll be obeyed.
You wish to take my life; it's owed to you.
Your orders will be strictly listened to.
With heart submissive, mind as satisfied
As when to my engagement I agreed,
I will, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   AGAMEMNON
 

   CLYTEMNESTRA
 
—translated by Rachel Hadas


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