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Oedipus, King of Thebes, has just been told by an omniscient seer that he is the murderer of the late King Laius. He begins to worry that his fate is cursed but his wife Jocasta, Laius' widow, tries to calm him. She narrates the details around her husband's death as proof that prophets are all false. However, her account sounds familiar to Oedipus and, in turn, he tells her of his journey to Thebes, during which he was harassed by an angry traveler whom he killed in self-defense.
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JO. Let not thy queen be left in ignorance
What cause thou hadst to lift thy wrath so high.
OED. I'll tell thee, lady, for I honour thee
More than these citizens. 'Twas Creon there,
And his inveterate treason against me.
JO. Accuse him, so you make the quarrel plain.
OED. He saith I am the murderer of the King.
JO. Speaks he from hearsay, or as one who knows?
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