Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

GIACOPO

in Love's Sacrifice

Metadata

PlayLove's Sacrifice
Year (catalogued)1633
First performance1633
Decade1630s
GenreTragedy
Play typeProfessional;Adult Professional
CompanyQueen Henrietta Maria's Men
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Gia.
Words365
Characters1885
Typicality0.43 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA01056
BritDrama no.2360
ClusterCluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers

Important excerpts

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Full speech

My Lord. I have no Powlterers nose, but your apparel sits About you most debonarely. Yes indeed, Sir, I do feel a savour as pleasant as—a Glister-pipe,——Calamus or Civet. Thus high, Sir? I think no less, Sir; For you look as wild, and talk as idly As if you had not slept these nine years. What? my Lord? Then you'll look Like a dwarf, Sir, being cut off by the middle. But now, Sir, for the conceit. I marry, Sir, this is something. All above. Would, would, would.—— Oh my Lord, my Lord, you have got and everlasting fame; the Dukes grace, and the Duchess grace, and my Lord Fernando's grace, with all the rabble of Courtiers, have herd every word, look where they stand: now you shall be made a Count for your wit, and I Lord for my counsel. Vd's me, tell him you'll come. Oh my Lord, I do now smell news. The Duke has a smackering towards you, and you shall clap up with his sister, the widow, suddenly. The Ladies, my Lord, call him the Green broom of the Court, he sweeps all before him, and swear he has a stab bing wit: it is a very glister to laughter- A Rhedish root is a spear of steel in comparison of I know what.— Now good my Lord partly not with the Fool on any terms. O my Lord, what and arrant excellent pretty creature it's? come honey, honey, honey, come. My Lord you have most rarely bethought you; For so shall she no oftener see the Fool, But she shall remember you better, Then by a thousand Looking-glasses. To her, Sir. My Lord. A very senseless Gentleman, and please your High ness, one that has a great deal of little wit, as they say. Answer him, brother fool; do, do, speak thy mind huck, do. Which caused the strongest breath, garlic or any ons, I take it, Sir. Phew, Sir, do not stand upon that, that's a matter of nothing, you know. Oh pitiful, not near the Court, Sir. I forsake ye? no, not as long as I have a whole ear on my head, come what will come.

Plot summary

Plot — Love's Sacrifice
D'Avolos induces Roseilli to leave court by inventing a ducal order of banishment, then intervenes in a developing love-quadrangle: the Duke has recently married Bianca, who is loved by Fernando, who in turn is loved by Fiormonda. Bianca repeatedly refuses to hear Fernando's protestations, but later visits him in bed while the Duke is away hunting, and admits that she reciprocates his love. However, he will not take dishonourable advantage of the situation, and adultery does not occur. D'Avolos learns of their mutual attraction, andtells Fiormonda. With Fernando's connivance, Roseilli returns to court disguised as a fool, and is placed in Fiormonda's household. Ferentes woos three women-Colona, Julia, and old Morona-and under promise of marriage gets each of them pregnant; he then refuses to honour his word to any of them. Fernando proposes to welcome Bianca's uncle to court with a masque, but the jilted women use it as a front for revenge, and kill Ferentes during the performance. They are bailed into male custody and eventually pardoned, but old Mauruccio, the only other masquer deemed criminally responsible, is imprisoned. Bianca and Fernando plead for his release, which is granted after Morona agrees to marry him, but the couple are then banished. D'Avolos casually draws the Duke's attention to Bianca's solicitude towards Fernando, and works with Fiormonda to foster his jealousy: they insinuate that Ferentes was killed to silence him, but the Duke asks for ocular proof of adultery. Fiormonda gives Fernando a chance to accept her love in preference to Bianca's, but his refusal confirms her vindictiveness; Roseilli hears her plotting against the favourite. The Duke pretends to leave court, then returns to find Fernando and Bianca together. Fernando is arrested, and the Duke kills Bianca. Fernando affirms Bianca's chastity, and the penitent Duke visits her tomb. Inside he finds Fernando in a winding sheet, who rebukes the Duke and poisons himself; the Duke stabs himself in remorse. Having learned Roseilli's true identity, Fiormonda bestows the dukedom on him by choosing him as her husband. After accepting, he demands that she live out the rest of her life in repentance and married celibacy. D'Avolos is imprisoned and starved