in The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora) — Killigrew, Henry
Metadata
Play
The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora)
Author
Killigrew, Henry
Year (catalogued)
1638
First performance
1635
Decade
1630s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Private; Adult Professional
Company
King's Men
Speech prefix(es)
Acha.
Words
176
Characters
922
Typicality
0.36 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A04824
BritDrama no.
2459
Cluster
Cluster 7 — Pedants, satyrs & Latin wit
Important excerpts
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Full speech
There he sits, and sleep hath seized on him, which seldom does so at a seasoned hour, but still he takes it when it comes, not when 'tis endue, when weariness and not the warnings of the night do prompt him to it. He says to sleep because the day is gone, is to perform a duty not a ne cessity, and to eat at a certain hour to satisfy the time, and not his hunger. Nature is the Mistress of his faculties and no custom, which are rude and stubborn and will admit not Laws but what themselves enact, nor strictly observe them neither. 'Tis a strange distraction for 16. years, a deeper dis content possesses him then does the memories of those, which have run the miseries, and sins of a long life. This desolate happiness is all that he enjoys, and this I am commanded to break from him. Let that reason make you scorne'em, and aim at lasting ones. I must forbear my remedies it's dangerous applying Physic in a fit. Exit.
Plot summary
Plot — The Conspiracy (Pallantus and Eudora)
Two foreign princes arrive on Crete after a storm. One is Clearchus, who is finding an excuse to land with a shipful of troops which he intends to use to rescue the Princess Hianthe from a forced marriage to the usurping King’s son, Timeus. The other is Pallantus, whose ship has been wrecked. Afterwards he discovers that this was a lucky escape: Timeus suborned the sailors to kill him. He disguises himself as a soldier and both he and Clearchus fall in with a group of courtiers who are conspiring to restore the rightful King, Cleander, to the throne. (Cleander disappeared in infancy when the present King seized power sixteen years ago, and was wrongly presumed murdered.) Timeus learns of the plot, but open rebellion breaks out before he can do anything about it: Clearchus’ troops storm the city, Hianthe is rescued, and Pallantus kills the usurping King. In the ensuing sack, Pallantus encounters the Princess Eudora, the King’s daughter, and falls in love with her. He later returns to her in his own person, and counters her objections to him as her father’s killer by producing the evidence that Timeus attempted to have him murdered. Meanwhile, Timeus and his associates take refuge in the fort. Pallantus is sent to parley with them, and succeeds in persuading him to abandon villainy and accept Cleander’s mercy. Timeus and Eudora are reunited, and Timeus shows remorse for the attempted murder of Pallantus. Eudora agrees to marry Pallantus, and the dead King is cremated.