Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)
Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man - full text of the drama - Translated by Joseph Grosz
KIMON (putting the sword on the altar) Oh Goddess! Save this precious sword for me Until I come to claim it as my own. EVE Let me, the mother, scatter incense at This double sacrifice. Pallas, behold us! FIRST DEMAGOGUE (at the rostrum) Was I not right? A traitor he, indeed! He does not want to fight against the Meed; Darius bought him. He only feigns his wounds. THE MOB Put him to death! ADAM , What is this noise outside? EVE Miltiades, I am so horrified. This wretched mob is branding you a traitor. ADAM It is ridiculous. A traitor? I Who vanquished Darius at Marathon? EVE You are so right, but that’s forgotten now. Here you will find a cruel world today. FIRST DEMAGOGUE Why this delay? Arrest him right away! (The mob, Lucifer among them, crowds toward the temple.) Ill
