Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 by Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 by Richard Wagner

Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4

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Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 Annotated

Scene IV

KURVENAL boisterously enters through the curtains.

KURVENAL
Up, up, ye ladies!
Look alert!
Straight bestir you!
Loiter not,—here is the land!—
To dame Isolda
says the servant
of Tristan,
our hero true:—
Behold our flag is flying!
it waveth landwards aloft:
in Mark's ancestral castle
may our approach be seen.
So, dame Isolda,
he prays to hasten,
for land straight to prepare her,
that thither he may bear her.

ISOLDA who has at first cowered and shuddered on hearing the message, now speaks calmly and with dignity
My greeting take
unto your lord
and tell him what I say now:
Should he assist to land me
and to King Mark would he hand me,
unmeet and unseemly
were his act,
the while my pardon
was not won
for trespass black and base:
So bid him seek my grace.
KURVENAL makes a gesture of defiance.
Now mark me well,
This message take:—
Nought will I yet prepare me,
that he to land may bear me;
I will not by him be landed,
nor unto King Mark be handed
ere granting forgiveness
and forgetfulness,
which 'tis seemly
he should seek:—
for all his trespass base
I tender him my grace.

KURVENAL
Be assured,
I'll bear your words:
we'll see what he will say!

He retires quickly.

Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 Q&A

Who wrote Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4's ?

Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 was written by Richard Wagner.

When did Richard Wagner release Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4?

Richard Wagner released Tristan and Isolda Act I Scene 4 on Sat Jun 10 1865.

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