before the Court;Phoenix/Cockpit;Whitehall;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Math. | Mat. | Math •
Words
379
Characters
2036
Typicality
0.45 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A06991
BritDrama no.
828
Cluster
Cluster 5 — Romantic leads (high style)
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Whose this? Fair Abigall the rich Jews daugh ter Become a Nun, her father's sudden fallen Has humbled her and brought her down to this: Tut, she were fitter for a tale of love Then to be tired out with Orisons: And better would she far become a bed Embraced in a friendly lovers arms, Then rise at midnight to a solemn mass. Believe me, Noble Lodowick, I have seen The strangest sighed, in my opinion, That ever I beheld. A fair young maid scarce 14 years of age, The sweetest flower in Citherea's field, Cropped from the pleasures of the fruitful earth, And strangely metamorphis'd Nun. Why the rich Jews daughter. And matchless beautiful; As had you seen her 'twould have moved your heart, Though countermined with walls of brass, to love, Or at the least to pity. What makes the Jew and Lodewicke so private? I fear me it's about fair Abigall. No, this is the better, mother, view this well. But wherefore talked Done Lodowick with you? Yes, Madam, and my talk with him was About the borrowing of a book or two. Sirrah, Jew, remember the book. Wither but to my fair love Abigall ? I, Barabas, or else thou wrongest me much: Does she receive them? O treacherous Lodowick! I'll rouse him thence. What hand in hand, I cannot suffer this. Well, let it pass, another time shall serve. Suffer me, Barabas, but to follow him. For this I'll have his heart. What greater gift can poor Mathias have? Shall Lodowick rob me of so fair a love? My life is not so deer as Abigall. What, is he gone unto my mother? I cannot stay; for if my mother come, Shee'll die with grief. Exit. This is the place, now Abigall shall see Whither Mathias holds her deer or no. What, dares the villain write in such base terms? Farewell Lodowick. Ex unt. Oh leave to grieve me, I am grieved enough. My son loved thine. Lend me that weapon that did kill my son, And it shall murder me. Hold, let's inquire the causers of their death's, That we may venge their blood upon their heads. Where is the Jew, where is that murderer? I must and will, Sir, there's no remedy.
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…