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
Go on, rejoice, deny your virtue’s shrine! Now execute me for my punishment: Not for the wrong that I have never done But for the noble aims which led me on. (In the meantime, they bring the headman s block before the steps. Lucifer stands beside it with the headmans sword. Adam bows his head.) FIRST DEMAGOGUE Execute him! Long live the fatherland! LUCIFER (whispering to Adam) This is a fair farewell, my hero lord! Do you not feel some oddish shuddering As death of horror sends his chilly kiss? EVE Pallas, you did not listen to my prayer! (The spirit of death, as a mild Youth, comes from the temple carrying a wreath and a torch that is turned downward. He steps to Adam.) ADAM Pallas has heard you - heaven be with you. Lucia, darling, peace is in my heart! LUCIFER You idle world of phantoms, be accursed; You have unmade my finest hour again! EVE You vulgar-hearted people, be condemned! You have mistreated bliss with brutal hands And thrown its fragrant flowers in the dust - Freedom will never be so sweet for you As it is painful to my broken heart! 181
