Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King
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+ | :And in his rage some demon pointed him | ||
+ | :The way, — for 'twas no man of us at hand. | ||
+ | :And with a fearful shout, as following | ||
+ | :Some leader, he assailed the folding doors. | ||
+ | :Then hollowing inwards from the mortised bolts | ||
+ | :The yielding boards, he breaks into the room ; | ||
+ | :Where high suspended we beheld the queen. | ||
+ | :In twisted cordage violently swung. | ||
+ | :And he with terrible outcry when he saw. | ||
+ | :Poor king ! undid the hanging noose. But when | ||
+ | :She lay upon the ground, 'twas terrible | ||
+ | :To see what followed. For he tore away | ||
+ | :The brooch-pins that had fastened her attire, | ||
+ | :And, lifting, smote his eyeballs to the root, | ||
+ | :Saying, Henceforth they should not see the evil | ||
+ | :Suffered or done by him in the past time, | ||
+ | :But evermore in darkness now should scan | ||
+ | :The features he ought never to have seen. | ||
+ | :And not-discern the souls he longed to know. | ||
+ | :Chanting this strain, not once but oftentimes | ||
+ | :He dashed the points into his eyes ; and soon | ||
+ | :The bleeding pupils moistened all his beard, | ||
+ | :Nor stinted the dark flood, but all at once | ||
+ | :The ruddy hail poured forth with plenteous shower. | ||
+ | :Thus from two springs, from man and wife together, | ||
+ | :Burst the joint evil that is now o'erflowing. | ||
+ | :And the old happiness in that past day | ||
+ | :Was truly happy, but the present hour | ||
+ | :Hath groaning, death, disaster, shame, all ill | ||
+ | :Without exemption, that hath e'er been named. | ||
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+ | ::-- [[The Oedipus Tyrannus]], tr. Lewis Campbell | ||
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[[Image:Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King]]]] | [[Image:Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King]]]] | ||
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- | ''[[Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King]]'' (c. 1896)[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oedipus.jpg] is the informal title of a photo taken of Dutch actor [[Louis Bouwmeester]] playing [[Oedipus]]. In the photo, he has just [[gouged his eyes]] out and is bleeding. | + | ''[[Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King]]'' (c. 1896)[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oedipus.jpg] is the informal title of a photo taken of Dutch actor [[Louis Bouwmeester]] playing [[Oedipus]] in ''[[Oedipus the King]]''. In the photo, he has just [[gouged his eyes]] out and is bleeding. |
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[The blinding scene in Sophocles's Oedipus the King]] | ||
*[[Enucleation of the eye]] | *[[Enucleation of the eye]] | ||
*[[Louis Bouwmeester]] | *[[Louis Bouwmeester]] |
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Louis Bouwmeester as Oedipus in a Dutch production of Oedipus the King (c. 1896)[1] is the informal title of a photo taken of Dutch actor Louis Bouwmeester playing Oedipus in Oedipus the King. In the photo, he has just gouged his eyes out and is bleeding.
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See also
- The blinding scene in Sophocles's Oedipus the King
- Enucleation of the eye
- Louis Bouwmeester
- Oedipus
- Oedipus the King
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