![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She gathers flowers and sings like an angel. Years pass one May morning the beautiful Emelye goes a-Maying in the garden below the tower in which the prisoners are held. Theseus sends them to Athens to dwell in prison perpetually. He captures the city, tears down its walls, and has the bodies of the ladies' husbands properly cremated and buried.Īs the pillagers ransack the bodies, the heralds recognize among the wounded two princes of the royal blood, born of sisters. The noble Theseus, moved by their plight, turns aside from Athens and leads his army to Thebes, where he slays Creon and defeats his army. The tyrant Creon has captured Thebes, killed their husbands, and will not allow the bodies to be buried. She is the queen, Cappaneus' wife, and the others all noble ladies, cast down by Fortune. The eldest explains that they are waiting here at the Temple of Clemency to ask Theseus' help. ![]() As he comes to the edge of the town, his progress is interrupted by a group of weeping ladies, kneeling and clad in black. Her young sister Emelye accompanies them. Theseus, duke of Athens, returns in triumph from Scithia, where he has conquered and married the queen of the Amazons, Ypolita. Tense changes in this summary reflect the usage of the historical present in the original. ![]()
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