Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

HESPERIDA

in Every Man in His Humor — Jonson, Ben

Metadata

PlayEvery Man in His Humor
AuthorJonson, Ben
Year (catalogued)1601
First performance1598
Decade1600s
GenreComedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyLord Chamberlain's (Hunsdon's) Men
Speech prefix(es)Hes. | H • s. | Hesp.
Words217
Characters1150
Typicality0.21 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA04647
BritDrama no.1143
ClusterCluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers

Important excerpts

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Full speech

I pray you do servant. es ayth when they come lightly. No matter he is able to bear. Nay, speak I pray you, what trick S? Passion of my heart? do tricks? Help, help, Piso. Brother indeed you are to violent, To sudden in your courses, and you know My brother Prosperus temper will not bear Any reproof, chiefly in such a presence, Where every slight disgrace he should receive, Would wound him in opinion and respect. Yes there was one a civil gentleman, And very worthily demand himself. Good brother be content, what do you mean, The strength of these extreme conceits will kill you? That touches not me brother. Hath I had very little confidence in mine own continued stancie if I durst not meet a man: but brother Prospero this motion of your savours of and old knight adventurers sir vant, me thinks. Marry of the squire. Brother I will, and bless my happy stars. She's gone abroad with Pizo. I know not sir. Servant, what is that to same I pray you? so is he. A love of mine? infayth I would he were No others love but mine. Servant (in troth) you are too prodigal of your wit treasure; thus to pour it forth upon so mean a subject, as my worth?

Plot summary

Plot — Every Man in His Humor
Prospero invites DOrenzo—jinior to visit him in Florence and see two gulls, Mathes and Bobadilla; Lorenzo decides to bring along his cousin St@pHAHG as a third. His father has intercepted the letter and, concerned to wean him away from poetry and towards more profitable studies, follows him to the city. The servant Misco follows EGFEHZOISEHIOF and insinuates himself into his master’s service under a new identity, disguised as a soldier. MGFENG is concerned that Prospero has become dissolute, and that the bad company which visits him will corrupt his sister M@Sperida and cuckold him; consequently he is anxious about leaving his house to do business. Matheo, who has been threatened with a cudgelling by GiliaiG, visits Bobadilla at his lodgings and they practice fighting. Later, Bobadilla assaults @6B for speaking against tobacco, and Cob procures a warrant from the city magistrate, DGGtGPIGIEMERL, to prevent ===== PAGE 52 ===== him fighting. Matheo woos Hesperida, using plagiarized verses. Giuliano provokes a fight with Matheo, but Bobadilla cannot participate because he is bound over by Cob’s warrant (and also because he is a coward); Giuliano later gives him a beating, which again he cannot resist. Thorello and his wife are lured away on false errands while Lorenzo Junior marries Hesperida. A series of ‘mistaken identities and tricks by Musco leads all the major characters to Doctor Clement’s house, either as litigants or prisoners. Lorenzo Junior pronounces on the current state of poetry. Matheo’s verses are destroyed, and he is sentenced to do public penance; Bobadilla is imprisoned. Doctor Clement requires the others to abandon their humours and dine with him, awarding Musco the place of honour. B-Text