before the Court;Phoenix/Cockpit;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
1. | 2. | 1 Iew. | 2 Iew. | 3. | 2,
Words
334
Characters
1714
Typicality
0.28 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06991
BritDrama no.
828
Cluster
Cluster 8 — Martial kings & Roman gravity
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 8 (massinissa, yaw, league, renown, quasi, apud…). Matches are highlighted.
Barabas, Are come from Turkey, and lie in our Rhode: And they this day fit in the Counsel-house To entertain them and their Embassy. Were it for confirmation of a League, They would not come in warlike manner thus. Why, Barabas, they come for peace or war. I know you will; well brothers let us go. I, that thou hast — I, that thou
Full speech
Tush, tell not me 'twas done of policy. A Fleet of warlike Galleys, Barabas, Are come from Turkey, and lie in our Rhode: And they this day fit in the Counsel-house To entertain them and their Embassy. Were it for confirmation of a League, They would not come in warlike manner thus. Why, Barabas, they come for peace or war. I know you will; well brothers let us go. I, that thou hast — I, that thou art a — I, thy daughter, — I, remember that — O good Barabas come to our house. O Barabas, their Laws are strict. They wear no shirts, and they go barefoot too. Good Barabas come to me. You hear your answer, and you may be gone. I will not go for thee. How, dost call me rogue? Fight. Come therefore let us go to Barrabas ; For he can counsel best in these affairs; And here he comes. I fear their coming will afflict us all. But there's a meeting in the Senate-house, And all the Jews in Malta must be there. Let's take our leaves; Farewell good Barabas. Barabas, thou hast — Thou art a — Thy daughter — Remember that — Thou hast committed — I, but Barabas remember Mathias and Done Lodowick. I will not say that by a forged challenge they met. O no, good Barabas come to our house. And Barabas, you know — I'll be with you to night. Not, then I'll make thee go. O yet be patient, gentle Barabas. Why, Barabas, as hardly can we brook The cruel handling of our selves in this: Thou seest they have taken half our goods. Yet brother Barabas remember Job, Come, let us leave him in his ireful mood, Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Good Barabas be patient. On then: but trust me it's a misery To see a man in such affliction: Farewell Barabas. Exeunt. And very wisely said, it may be so. Why go get you away.
Plot summary
Plot — The Jew of Malta
For ten years, Malta has failed to pay tribute to the Turks; now Séliml(@alymath comes to collect the arrears, but grants Bémeze, the Governor, a month to find the money. Ferneze requires the island’s Jews to contribute half their assets towards the sum, on pain of forcible conversion; but Bafabas, a wealthy merchant with trading links all over the east, refuses either to pay or to become a Christian. His entire estate is seized and his house converted to a nunnery. Unbeknown to the authorities, there is a cache of money and jewels hidden in the house; Barabas has his daughter, Abigail, become a nun in order to get access to it. After retrieving the gold, she leaves the convent, and Barabas buys a new house. The Spanish Vice-Admiral, Martin(§@elgposcs} arrives in Malta after routing the Turkish navy. He is granted permission to sell his prisoners as slaves on the island, even though this will be provocative to the Turks; Ferneze decides to keep the gold he levied to pay the tribute, and count on Spanish aid in the war that will follow. Barabas visits the slave market and buys [fiamiore; they swap stories about their exploits in villainy. A Turkish pasha comes to collect the tribute money, but Ferneze refuses to pay. War looms. Mathias and WEdGwiek both love Abigail. Barabas asks her to encourage Lodowick, even though she prefers Mathias; he doesn’t want her to marry either, but particularly wants to destroy Lodowick to get revenge on Ferneze, his father. He tells Mathias of Lodowick’s interest, and forges a challenge from Lodowick. The two young men fight and kill one another. When Abigail finds out what has happened, she rejoins the nunnery. Barabas adopts Ithamore as his heir and sends the nuns an anonymous gift of poisoned rice. They all die; Abigail’s last act is to confess to Friar Barnardine her 1589 father’s part.in the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick. Barmardine and Friarjacom try to exploit the power this knowledge gives them over Barabas, without explicitly revealing it (which is forbidden under canon law). Barabas sets enmity between them by pretending he wishes to join a religious order and give that order his money; the two friars vie with one another to offer him an easier life, and he promises himself to both. He and Ithamore strangle Barnardine with his own girdle and stand up the body as if alive; it falls down when Jacomo strikes it, and he is hanged for the murder. With fewer visitors coming to Malta, there has been a slackening in trade…