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Thank you We sneak in What if it's the king

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Ha la shmoop So we're here with the coup talking

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about edifice the cane before we start off can you

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sort of just tell us anything that we should know

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before we start reading the book Thiss is pretty classic

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greek tragedy it's a dark story you should watch out

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for the presence of the greek chorus which will alert

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you to pretty important things that are going and we're

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going to be thinking a lot about fate and important

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decisions and family big meaty themes here So what is

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the premise of the play Ed abyss learns that he

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has fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his

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father and married his mother Basically the two worst things

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that could happen to him and he's figuring out the

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story and we're figuring it out alongside him So how

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does the story start off So edifice is the king

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of thieves and he learns that curse has fallen the

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land He asks a priest what's going on and finds

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out that droughts and illnesses and crop shortages the animal

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deaths have spread across the land and he has to

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figure out why and what he can do So obviously

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he just goes And saves the day right Because he's

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the king he tries tio he's pretty confident that he

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can But if he did right away there wouldn't be

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a play right name Some of the main themes discussed 00:01:38.453 --> [endTime] in edifice The king

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