in Campaspe (Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes) — Lyly, John
Metadata
Play
Campaspe (Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes)
Author
Lyly, John
Year (catalogued)
1584
First performance
1583
Decade
1580s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Boys Professional
Company
Children of the Chapel (first) (Oxford's Boys)
Theater
before the Court;
Speech prefix(es)
Plato | Plato.
Words
154
Characters
832
Typicality
0.27 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06583
BritDrama no.
746
Cluster
Cluster 14 — Law & judgment
Important excerpts
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Full speech
It is a difficult controversy, Aristotle, and ra there to be wondered at, then believed, how natural caused ses should work supernal effects. That which man hitherto never knew. Thou art fortunate Aristotle, that Alexander is thy scholar. Let us questio ̄ a little with Diogenes, why he went not with us to Alexander, Diogenes, thou didst forget thy duty, that thou wentest not with us to the king. Thou takest as great pride to be peevish, as oh the do glory to be virtuous. To be Socrates furious, let us go. Cleanthes, and you attribute so much to nam ture by searching for things which are not to be found, that whilst you study a cause of your own, you omit the occasion it self. There is no man so savage in whom rests not this divine particle, that there is and omni potent, eternal and divine mover, which may be called God.
Plot summary
Plot — Campaspe (Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes)
King Alexander has conquered Thebes and brought its captives to Athens, where he means to spend a peaceful interlude with the philosophers. Mo~t 1.:on 1 e and debate for him, but Diogenes churlishly refu:;t:"s to comply. Alexander becomes enamoured of Campaspe, and has her painted by Apelles, who himself falls in love with her. Knowing he must not challenge Alexander in love, he creates an excuse to see her again by blemishing the painting so that a second sitting is needed. Diogenes sends his servant to draw a crowd with a report that he will fly, but it is only a pretext to rail at them. Using a false report of a fire in Apelles' shop, Alexander tricks the painter into revealing his feelings for Campaspe, and, establishing that she reciprocates them, graciously withdraws his suit and allows them to marry. Having subdued his own amorous feelings, he will now go to war with Persia and conquer the world.