The nurse sets the scenario and the mood. The Greek tragedy begins. "I wish
my mistress Medea would have never met Jason, nor loved and saved him, nor cut herself from home to come with him into this country
at first it all went well
now it is all changed; all is black hatred, for Jason has turned from her; he calls the old bond a barbarian mating, not a Greek marriage; he has cast her off and wed the yellow haired child of Creon, the ruler here. He wants a high place in Corinth. For these he is willing to cast Medea and betray the children
but Medea lies in this house broken with pain and rage", the Nurse weeps; the tutor furthers her lamentations, "Creon the lord of this land intends to drive out Medea and the children with her, these innocent boys, out of this house and out of Corinth, and they must wander trough the wild world homeless and helpless." In this tragedy, Medea, an Asian princess, avenges herself against her husband, her husband's new bride, and the new......
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