before the Court;Phoenix/Cockpit;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Lod.
Words
357
Characters
1821
Typicality
0.44 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06991
BritDrama no.
828
Cluster
Cluster 13 — Attendant courtiers & citizens
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 13 (tanner, kate, topas, harry, henry, george…). Matches are highlighted.
shows it by night? And what's the price? No, Barabas, I will deserve it first. No doubt your soul shall reap the fruit of it. Good Barabas glance not at our holy Nuns. And, Barabas, I'll bear thee company. Ratest thou this More but at 200 plaits? O Barabas well met; where is the Diamond You told me of? Barabas, is not that the
Full speech
Why how now Done Mathias, in a dump? What wast I prethe? But say, What was she? What Barabas, whose goods were lately seized? Is she so fair? And if she be so fair as you report, 'Twere time well spent to go and visit her: How say you, shall we? And so will I too, or it shall go hard. Farewell Mathias. I hear the wealthy Jew walked this way; I'll seek him out, and so insinuate, That I may have a sighed of Abigall ; For Done Mathias tells me she is fair. Yond walks the Jew, now for fair Abigall. Barabas, thou knowest I am the Governors son. Whither walkest thou Barabas? Well, Barabas, canst help me to a Diamond? What sparkle does it give without a foil? Is it square or pointed, pray let me know. I Like it much the better. How shows it by night? And what's the price? No, Barabas, I will deserve it first. No doubt your soul shall reap the fruit of it. Good Barabas glance not at our holy Nuns. And, Barabas, I'll bear thee company. Ratest thou this More but at 200 plaits? O Barabas well met; where is the Diamond You told me of? Barabas, is not that the widows son? My death? what is the base born peasant mad? Why loves she Done Mathias ? Barabas, thou knowest I have loved thy daughter long. And now I can no longer hold my mind. This is thy Diamond, tell me, shall I have it? It's not thy wealth, but her that I esteem, Yet crave I thy consent. Then gentle Abigail plighted thy faith to me. Now have I that for which my soul hath longed. Why on the sudden is your colour changed? Mute a the sudden; here's a sudden change. O, is't the custom, then I am resolved: But rathe let the brightsome heavens be dim, And Nature's beauty choke with stifling clouds, Then my fair Abigail should frown on me. There comes the villain, now I'll be revenged. Well, let him go. Exit. I did it, and revenge it if thou darest.
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…