7.ISMENE COMES TO COLONUS: “HOW SHALL I SEE YOU THROUGH MY TEARS”

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CHORUS, OEDIPUS, ANTIGONE, EVANGELIST, ISMENE

Reference

FC 98-99: Ismene in SCENE II

FC 102: continue in SCENE II

"There’s hope for me:" Oedipus knows that he is ordained to die at the Grove, but didn’t know he would be forgiven but his people…and maybe can return to Thebes?

FC 10: TYPO! Should be FC 102, still in SCENE II, Oedipus asks Ismene

Review from Scene 6

Crying vs Smiling

In OEDIPUS AT COLONUS, Antigone says "and she (Ismene) is smiling now as she comes."

"Between one who laughs and one who weeps there is no difference in the eyes, or mouth, or cheeks, but only in the rigidity of the eyebrows which are drawn together by him who weeps and are raised by him who laughs." - Leonardo da Vinci

“Laughing is crying. It is the same physical response. It comes from the same places in the nerves. You stimulate a certain nerve, and you don't know if you are going to get a laugh or a sob.” - Lee Breuer