in Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will — Haughton, William
Metadata
Play
Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will
Author
Haughton, William
Year (catalogued)
1616
First performance
1598
Decade
1610s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men
Speech prefix(es)
Brow. | Browne. | Brown.
Words
230
Characters
1214
Typicality
0.16 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A02800
BritDrama no.
1120
Cluster
Cluster 3 — Citizens, tradesfolk & neighbors
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Faith you know my price sir, if you have them. I beseech you Sir, hold your hand; Get home ye patch, cannot you suffer Gentlemen Jest with you? Come M. More, th'Exchange is waxed thin, I think it best we get us home to dinner. Then this it is. Young Harvey late last night, Full weak and sickly came unto his lodging, From whence this sudden malady proceeds: 'Tis all uncertain, the Doctors and his Friends Affirm his health is unrecoverable: Young Heigham and Ned Walgraue lately left him, And I came hither to inform you of it. Nay hear me out. Whither 'tis love to you, or to your Daughter, I know not certain; but the Gentleman Hath made a deed of gift of all his Lands, Unto your beauteous Daughter fair Marina. To none but your Daughter fair Marina And for the gift might be more forcible, Your neighbour master More advised us, (Who is a witness of young Haruies Will) Sick as he is, to bring him to your house: I know they are not far, but do attend, That they may know, what welcome they shall have. He, or his likeness did, I know not whither. God save you Gentlemen. I prithee, when thinkest thou the Ships will be come about from Plymouth? Even to your self: I come (I think) to bring you welcome news,
Plot summary
Plot — Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman Will Have Her Will
The usurer Pisaro intends to marry his daughters to three foreigners, while also using them to acquire wealth from their English suitors. Anthony, their tutor, is sacked for acting as a go-between for the Englishmen, but he disguises himself and is hired in as his own replacement. The daughters encourage their suitors to borrow more money from Pisaro, in the expectation that the debt will be cancelled when they marry. Pisaro, distracted by rumours that his ships have been ambushed in the Mediterranean by Spanish pirates, mistakenly invites the English suitors to dinner. They take up the invitation, meet their foreign rivals, and arrange a nocturnal assignation with the sisters. Learning of this, Pisaro plans to substitute the foreigners, but Anthony forewarns the sisters, so that the Englishmen are able to misdirect the foreigners in the darkness. One of them is actually the clown Frisco, who has taken the Dutchman’s place, and who now leads the two foreigners even further astray. The Dutchman himself finds his way to Pisaro’s house, and the sisters trap him in a basket. The lovers arrive, ready to marry and then sleep with the sisters, but Pisaro intervenes. It seems that the daughters are to be married against their will in the morning, but Anthony devises three schemes: Walgrave impersonates a woman and spends the night with Mathea; Laurentia impersonates Anthony and escapes from the house to- marry Heigham; and Harvey pretends to be mortally ill, forcing Pisaro to let him marry Marina rather than lose the mortgage on his lands. ===== PAGE 28 ===== 28 | 1120.A Woman Will Have Her Will