Queen Elizabeth's Men (on tour); Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men (in London)
Theater
before the Court;
Speech prefix(es)
RODAMANT. | Ro: | Rod: | Roda: | Roda.
Words
316
Characters
1759
Typicality
0.38 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02125
BritDrama no.
876
Cluster
Cluster 24 — Gods, cupids & celestial agents
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Cuba my seat, a Region so enriched, With favours sparkling from the smiling heavens, As those that seeks for traffic to my Coast, Accounted Like that wealthy Paradise, From whence flows Gyhon and swift Euphrates: The earth within her bowels hath enwrapped, As in the massy storehowse of the world, Millions of gold as bright as was the shower, That wanton Jove sent down to Danae: Marching from thence to manage Arms abroad, I passed the triple parted Regiment, That froward Saturn gave unto his sons, Erecting Statues of my Chivalry, Such and so brave as never Hercules, Vowed for the love of lovely Jole: But leaving these such glories as they be, I love my Lord, let that suffice for me. How likes Marsillus of his daughters choice? Highly thou wrongest us, King of Africa, To brave thy neighbour Princes with disgrace, To tie thy honour to thy daughters thoughts, Whose choice is Like that Greekish giglots love, That left her Lord Prince Menelaus, And with a swain made escape away to Troy. What is Orlando but a straggling mate, Banished for some offence by Charlemagne, Skipped from his country as Anchises son, And means as he did to the Carthage Queen, To pay her ruth and ruin for her love. Fair shepherdess for so thy sitting seems, Or Nymph for less thy beauty cannot be: What feed you sheep upon these downs? Let him be thought a dastard to his death. That will not fell the travels he hath passed, Dearer than for a woman's fooleries. What says the mighty Mandricard? I'll beard & brave thee in thy proper town, And here inskonce my self despite of thee, And hold thee play till Mandricard return. What says the mighty Sultan of Egypt? This way she went, & far she cannot be. But stay what Drum is this? Found girl thou liest, thou art Angelica.
Plot summary
Plot — Orlando Furioso
From all over the world, princes have come to Africa to woo |Amgeliga, the successful suitor will become her father Marsilis’ heir. Given a free choice, Angelica opts for OFlaHdG) offending his higher-ranking rivals. They plan to seize Angelica and despoil Africa, but Orlando lays siege to R@@aimant's castle and sacks it. Rodamant and Brandimart flee. _ . Ambitious for love and power, Sa@rapalit woos Angelica, but she loves only Orlando. Planning to make Orlando jealous, he hangs love poems on the trees in a grove where Orlando walks; his man disguises himself as a shepherd and tells Orlando that Angelica is in love with Orlando is driven out of his mind, and dismembers fi@lShepherd’, mistaking him for Medor. M@arSiiWS banishes Angelica, but his former enemy Manidmieard receives gracious treatment and becomes his companion. Convinced that both Medor and Angelica are dead, Orlando madly plans to pursue them to hell to continue his revenge. He recruits an army of rustics and kills SERS in battle. He meets Angelica, but does not know her. His page presents him with a false ABeliea - in reality a cross-dressed clown - whom he beats. Having heard of Orlando’s lunacy, the twelve peers of France come to seek reprisals against ey and are greeted by Marsilius. makes war on Marsilius. The vitbeli Melis8A cures Orlando’s madness and sends him to fight. Sacrapant is defeated in single combat by Orlando, disguised as a common soldier; he confesses Angelica’s innocence before he dies. Meanwhile, the peers have captured her and plan to execute her for adultery. Still disguised, Orlando fights them in her defence, and wins. His countrymen recognize him by his distinctive combat style, and he explains Sacrapant’s stratagem. Marsilius invests him with his crown, and he prepares to return with Angelica to France.