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
Then they produce an heir; and then they die - Millions for one! ADAM What a horrid speech is that! LUCIFER The feverish madness of a dying slave. ADAM What did he say? LUCIFER Why worry, Pharaoh? I can tell you, you watch a grand event; Upon the earth we have one servant less. EVE For you a number - but for me the world. Oh gods, who will there be to love me now? THE SLAVE Not I, my wife. Forget me now forever. (He dies.) ADAM Now I will love you. Take away the corpse! (His servants lift up the corpse. To Eve.) Come, lady, come! Your place is on this throne; You are exactly so the queen of beauty As I, myself, am prince of strength. And so We had to meet each other. EVE Pharaoh, Your order is your servant’s destiny. 158
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