Act III of Jean Cocteau's play The Infernal Machine mostly recapitulates the plot of this earlier drama.
Act III of Jean Cocteau's play The Infernal Machine mostly recapitulates the plot of this earlier drama. The chorus in this drama entreats Dionysus for help with the plague in their city, as his mother Semele was a native of the title ruler's city. Hope is briefly restored to the title character when a messenger arrives from Corinth with the news that Polybus is dead and that Queen Merope wants the title character to return there to rule, but the arrival of the shepherd who witnessed the murder of Laius ends that hope. Culminating in the suicide of Jocasta and the title figure blinding himself, FTP, what is this classic Greek drama about the curse on the ruler of Thebes?
Act III of Jean Cocteau's play The Infernal Machine mostly recapitulates the plot of this earlier drama.
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