Helena’s Husband TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text [The shouts in the courtyard grow louder.]<br><br>ANALYTIKOS. The news has spread through the palace.<br><br>MENELAUS [in trepidation, springing up]. No one would dare stop the progress of the Queen.<br><br>TSUMU [rushes in and prostrates herself before the King]. Woe is me! They have gone by the road to the harbor.<br><br>MENELAUS [anxiously]. Yes! Yes!<br><br>TSUMU. By the King's orders no man has dared gaze upon Her Majesty. They all fell prostrate before her.<br><br>MENELAUS. Good! Good! [Attempting to cover his delight.] Go! Go! You garrulous dog.<br><br>[Tsumu gets up and points to shield. Analytikos and the King look toward it. Analytikos tears off the papyrus and brings it to Menelaus. Tsumu, watching them, exits.]<br><br>MENELAUS [reading]. "I am not a bad woman. I did what I had to do." How Greek to blame fate for what one wants to do.<br><br>[Tsumu again comes tumbling in.]<br><br>TSUMU [again prostrate before the King]. A rumor flies through the city. He--he--<br><br>ANALYTIKOS [anxiously]. Well? Well?<br><br>TSUMU. He--he--<br><br>MENELAUS [furiously to Analytikos]. Rid me of this croaking raven.<br><br>TSUMU. Evil has fallen on Sparta. He--<br><br>ANALYTIKOS. Yes--yes--<br><br>MENELAUS [in a rage]. Out of my sight, perfidious Nubian. COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: HelenasHusband.pdf
