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
Let everyone escape where he can run! Here everything is lost! FIRST DEMAGOGUE Oh, no! We’ll go To pay him homage at the gates! EVE My gods! The condemnation of my husband was Bitter because I lost him but it’s harder That it was justified — though he is safe! FIRST OF THE MOB Arrest his wife, and should he hurt our city Then she will die together with her son. EVE How gladly would I die for you, my husband, If the country would not curse my son! KIMON Mother, fear not for me! Come! Come with me! This sacred temple will protect us both. (They enter the temple before the approaching mob. Two Nymphs release a garland of roses between them and the mob which stops immediately. Outside, the trumpets; the mob scatters in terror. The two Nymphs disappear.) LUCIFER It was a merry frolic at the start - And where one laughs, another breaks his heart. (He turns toward the temple.) If only this always renewing sight Of eternal beauty would not bother me. I shiver in its strange environment Which with the kissing lips of innocence 174
