person
Cippora (Zipporah)
Cippora
also: Zipporah, Cippora
Zipporah (Hungarian: Cippora), Moses's Midianite wife and daughter of Jethro; the drama's most human figure, a loving and grounded counterweight to Moses's prophetic vocation whose tearful farewell in Act Two and reappearance in Act Four dramatize the personal cost of his mission.
Reading notes
- Moses §2 Cippora
Zipporah (Hebrew: Tzippora), Moses's Midianite wife; the drama portrays her as a loving, grounded counterweight to Moses's prophetic vocation — her tearful farewell in Act Two and her reappearance in Act Four are among the drama's most human scenes.