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Say, but that too well he lov’d?This quotation depicts the journey of Orpheus and Eurydice from theunderworld back to the surface. Hades has relented and allowed Eurydice toleave, under the condition that Orpheus not look back at her until the twolovers reach the surface.Unfortunately, Orpheus cannot bring himself to trust Hades’s word, and justas they are reaching the surface, he looks back. Eurydice is immediately pulledback into the underworld, and Orpheus is unable to reenter to try to get her.Perhaps the most powerful part of the quotation is in the two final lines. AsEurydice dies again, she bear no anger toward her husband. She understandsthat, just as it was love that compelled him to journey into the underworld tofind her, it is love that compelled him to look back and make sure she wasthere. It is a very bittersweet, tragic moment. Get Ahead with eNotes Start your 48-hour free trial to access everything you need to rise to the top of the class. Enjoy expert answers and study guides ad-free and take your learning to the next level. Get 48 Hours Free Access Already a member? Log in here. Premium PDF Download the entire Orpheus and Eurydice study guide as a printable PDF! Download

This Saturday night, Staff Writer Paula Carrión attended CU Players production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice.Directed by Molly Greenwold (BC ’26), Eurydice was a compelling production full of the sorrow and lyricism of Ancient Greek tragedies, made wholly enchanting by the heartfelt and amusing performances of the cast.Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice is a retelling of the famous myth of Orpheus’ journey to the Underworld to bring his wife Eurydice back from the dead. In Ruhl’s version, we see Orpheus (played by Miranda Paiz, BC ’25) and Eurydice (played by Catherine Herrera, CC ’25) as two young lovers who—despite Orpheus’ distractions with music and occasional neglect of Eurydice—are getting married and feeling very happy at their party. Eurydice is quickly lured by the Nasty Interesting Man, or Lord of the Underworld (played by Eleanor Babwin, BC ’24), with the promise of a letter from her dead Father (played by Lonnie Miller, BC ’25), which he wrote and sent from the Underworld. Said letter is touching and sweet, and included marriage advice such as “cultivate the art of dancing.” Nasty Interesting Man is quite an appropriate name, for it is nasty indeed the way in which he manipulates Eurydice and intends to make her his wife—and for the striking amount of times he uses the word “interesting.” Babwin’s interpretation of the Nasty Interesting Man provided, however, one of the most laughter-inducing characters of the play, which was impressive considering how well she balanced this along with delivering chilling and shrewd lines.Herrera’s Eurydice unfortunately falls for the Nasty Interesting Man’s trick and meets her untimely death away from her beloved Orpehus. To represent her dying, the production cleverly used ladders and sudden light changes, which also marked all of the dealings and communications between the land of the living and the Underworld throughout the play, creating a truly complex and multi-dimensional stage.Once in the Underworld, Eurydice meets her father but sadly cannot recall who he is or what he means to her; upon dying everyone is bathed in a river whose waters make you forget everything about yourself, others, and about words themselves. Luckily, Eurydice’s

It should be noted that there are different versions of the story of Orpheusand Eurydice, so some of the particulars (and even specific characters) mightchange, depending on the version you read. In any case, I'd suggest that thestory of Orpheus and Eurydice ultimately revolves around four centralcharacters: Orpheus, Eurydice, Hades, and Persephone.Orpheus is one of the heroes of Greek mythology, famous for his musicalabilities. Eurydice is his wife who tragically falls victim of a snakebite.Eurydice dies, leaving Orpheus to grieve.In his grief, he determines to descend to the Underworld itself in order tobring her back from the dead. He comes before Hades and Persephone, the Kingand Queen of the Underworld, and his music affects them so greatly that theyreturn his wife on the condition that, as he leads her out of the Underworld,he not turn back to look upon her. While approaching the end of this journey,he looks back, thus failing in the end to bring Eurydice back from thedead. Get Ahead with eNotes Start your 48-hour free trial to access everything you need to rise to the top of the class. Enjoy expert answers and study guides ad-free and take your learning to the next level. Get 48 Hours Free Access Already a member? Log in here.

Father can still recall everything though, and so when he sees her daughter in the Underworld he tries to soothe her and make her feel at home as much as possible. It is this father-daughter relationship which makes for the tenderest parts of the play, and Miller’s heartwarming and sensitive performance create a genuine atmosphere of love in the scenes with Eurydice. The cast did a wonderful job of portraying filial love, its magnitude and it not being shadowed by romantic love.Interspersed with the Underworld we see Orpheus’ increasing despair when trying to find Eurydice. Paiz does a great job of acting as the heartbroken lover, who also happens to be a little too obsessed with music, but who is therefore capable of writing the most charming verses. “I wonder if you miss reading books in the Underworld,” writes Orpheus in one of the many letters he tries to send to Eurydice via worm. He also tries calling her, sending books, and writing songs until he finally manages to discover a way in which his singing can carry him all the way to the Underworld.In the meantime, Eurydice and her Father have created something close to a home in the Underworld, so when Orpheus arrives Eurydice is conflicted as to whether she should follow him out into the land of the living. Just like in the original myth, the condition for Orpheus to save his bride is to journey all the way out with turning back to see whether Eurydice is following him or not. In a great moment of tension, Eurydice makes Orpheus turn around and she is thus taken back to where his Father had already dipped himself in the waters of the river to be able to forget that he was losing his daughter all over again. The moment when Herrera holds in her arms an unconscious Miller is the climax in the despondency of the play, and the tearful speech she delivers while writing a letter to “[her] husband’s new wife” is as kind as it is melancholy: “I’m not worthy of you but I still

| Certified Educator There are a number of variations on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Thesequotations are drawn from one of the most widely accepted versions, which is inBook the Tenth of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Sir SamuelGarth.Long I my loss endeavour’d to sustain,And strongly strove, but strove, alas, in vain:At length I yielded, won by mighty love;Well known is that omnipotence above!This passage focuses on Orpheus’s reaction to the loss of his belovedEurydice, who died after stepping on a viper early in their marriage. Here,Orpheus is talking to Hades and Persephone in the underworld. He has traveledto the underworld to bring Eurydice back and is trying to explain his respectfor tradition and universal laws.Hades is charged with keeping the spirits of the dead in the underworld. Heis a very just god—meaning that he does not make exceptions to the rule that,once people die, they stay in the underworld for eternity (as exceptions wouldnot be fair to all the other souls). Orpheus is explaining that he understandsthat he should have moved on with his life after Eurydice died, but he wasunable to. This is a good strategy to use with Hades, as the god himself knowsthe power of love, having kidnapped a woman and forced her to be his wifebecause he fell in love with her.But if the destinies refuse my vow,And no remission of her doom allow;Know, I’m determin’d to return no more;So both retain, or both to life restore.Here, Orpheus is demonstrating the same power of love that initiallycompelled him to journey into the underworld to retrieve Eurydice. He isimploring Hades to release her but also saying that if Hades will not allowEurydice to leave, then Orpheus will stay in the underworld with her. In otherwords, he is saying, “Either let her come with me or I am staying here withher.” Orpheus’s words reveal the depths to which he is willing to go for hislove, even going so far as to sacrifice the remainder of his earthly life tonever be parted from her again.They well-nigh now had pass’d the bounds of night,And just approach’d the margin of the light,When he, mistrusting lest her steps might stray,And gladsome of the glympse of dawning day,His longing eyes, impatient, backward castTo catch a lover’s look, but look’d his last;For, instant dying, she again descends,While he to empty air his arms extends.Again she dy’d, nor yet her lord reprov’d;What could she