Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

SCHOOLMASTER

in What You Will

Metadata

PlayWhat You Will
Year (catalogued)1607
First performance1607
Decade1600s
GenreComedy
Play typeProfessional;Boys Professional
CompanyChildren of Paul's (second) (?)
Speech prefix(es)Ped. | Ped | Ped, | Peda.
Words350
Characters1948
Typicality0.08 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07081
BritDrama no.1283
ClusterCluster 3 — Citizens, tradesfolk & neighbors

Important excerpts

Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 3 (numps, numpes, blastfield, wares, parson, nidden…). Matches are highlighted.

declined with Haec the Feminine, because it is a household stuff particularly belonging, and most commonly resident un der the roof of Women's mouths. Come on you Nathaniell say you, say you next, not too fast, say tretably, say. Faster, faster. Rup, tup, snup, slup, bor, hor, cor, mor: holla, holla, holla, you Holifernes Pippo,
should up. I say untruss take him up, Nous, dispatch what not per fect in and Ass in presenty ? I say hold him up. Sance tricks trifles, delays, demurrers procrastinations or retarations mount him, mount him. He is reprieved: and now Apollo bless your brains Fa cundius and Elaborate ellegance, make your presence gracious in the

Full speech

Stand forth repeat your lesson with out book. Adjectives. Well to numbers. Good child, now thou art passed Lapides Stones, pro ceed to the cases Nous, say you next Nous, where's your lesson Nous. Say on for sooth say say. How many kind of verbs arthere? Of verbs personalls, how many kinds. Very good child, now learn to know the Deponent and common: Say you slip. What partly of speech is linguam, inflecte, inflecte. Why is linguam the Feminine gender? Would thou Ass, thou Dolt, Idem per idem, mark it: linguam is declined with Haec the Feminine, because it is a household stuff particularly belonging, and most commonly resident un der the roof of Women's mouths. Come on you Nathaniell say you, say you next, not too fast, say tretably, say. Faster, faster. Rup, tup, snup, slup, bor, hor, cor, mor: holla, holla, holla, you Holifernes Pippo, put him down, wipe your Nose: fie on your sleeve, where's your Muckender your Grandmother gave you? well say on say on. Ass, Ass. In what Sir? In what Sir in avi? What's next? Why thou ungracious child, thou simple animal, thou barnacle. Nous snare him, take him up, and you were my father you should up. I say untruss take him up, Nous, dispatch what not per fect in and Ass in presenty ? I say hold him up. Sance tricks trifles, delays, demurrers procrastinations or retarations mount him, mount him. He is reprieved: and now Apollo bless your brains Fa cundius and Elaborate ellegance, make your presence gracious in the eyes of your Mistress. Ludendi veniam est petita & concessa. Salvete pueri estote salvi, vos salvere exopto vobis salutem, Bat my fili, fili mi Bat. And you have a propensitude to him, he shall be for you: I was solicited to grant him leave to play the Lady in come medies presented by Children, but I knew his voice was to small and his stature to lo, sing, sing a Triple Holifernes ; sing. A very small sweet voice I'll assure you. Good boy, on on, With the grace of Heaven.

Plot summary

Plot — What You Will
Only three months after her husband Albano was reported dead in a sea battle, Celia has many suitors. Tomorrow she intends to marry Laverdure, a French knight; but Alban.o 's brothers, Randolfo and Adrian, disapprove. After fruitlessly petitioning the noctumal. party-loving Duke to stop the wedding, thcr decide to make it illegitimate by introducing an impostor, a perfumer named Francisco, to pose as Albano, claiming that he did not die after all; but Laverdure's page Bidet witnesses their scheming and warns his master. In fact, Albano survived. On his return to Venice he is unimpressed to hear that his supposedly faithful and loving wife is getting married again so soon; but when he accosts Laverdure, he is taken for Francisco. Even his own brothers take him for the disguised perfumer, so he begins to believe that he has indeed become Francisco by metempsychosis. He interrupts the performance of a play at court to protest at the way he has been treated, and the Duke assures everyone that he really is Albano. He decides to forgive everyone, including Laverdure and Celia. In the sub-plot, Simplicius saves the schoolboy Holofernes Pippo from a thrashing and takes him on as his page. A group of pages trick Simplicius into arranging an assignation with a merchant's wife, who turns out to be Holofemes in disguise.