![]() ![]() Part II: Back in Thebes, Arcite sinks into a lover's melancholy. Both knights think the other luckier: Palamon, because he can still see the beautiful Emilie Arcite, because he can raise an army and capture her. About this time, a friend to both Theseus and Arcite arrives in Athens and secures Arcite's release on the condition that he never return to Athens. Because both knights claim their love for Emilie, their friendship gives way to hostility. Arcite peers from the tower window and, upon seeing the fair Emilie, proclaims his own love for her. One morning several years later, Palamon sees the beautiful Emilie wandering about in her garden and cries out in pain. Theseus decides against executing the knights and instead imprisons them with no hope of ransom. After the destruction of Creon's forces, booty hunters find two young knights (Palamon and Arcite) who are not quite dead. Incensed, Theseus quickly overthrows Creon and restores the Theban dead to the women for ceremonial burying. Outside Athens, he meets a band of weeping women and learns that the tyrant Creon has murdered their husbands and dishonors the dead by leaving them unburied. ![]() Part I: Duke Theseus returns from overthrowing Scythia with his new wife, Hippolyta, and her sister, Emilie. ![]() ![]() The Sovereignty of Marriage versus the Wife's Obedience. ![]()
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