Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

JACOMO

in The Maid of Honor — Massinger, Philip

Metadata

PlayThe Maid of Honor
AuthorMassinger, Philip
Year (catalogued)1632
First performance1621
Decade1630s
GenreTragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyQueen Henrietta Maria's Men
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Iacom. | Facom.
Words233
Characters1224
Typicality0.44 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07240
BritDrama no.2291
ClusterCluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques

Important excerpts

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Full speech

And and enemy to your self. If we come off It is not amiss, if not, my state is settled Exeunt, alarm. I find not in my commission And officers bound to speak or understand More then his Mother tongue. You are i'the right. Pray you observe, Sir: I served two prenticeships, just fourteen year, Trailing the puissant pike; and half so long Had the right hand file, and I fought well, 'twas said too: But I might have served, and fought, and served ti doomsday And never have carried a lag, but for the legacy A buxsome widow of threescore, bequeathed me, And that too, my back knows, I labour hard for, But was better paid. You may add to Our sport took up on trust. It is too little; yet Since you have said the word, I am content, But will not go a gazet less. I am dumb, Sir. Off with their irons. Under guard, As you directed The devil cannot fright they From their military licence, though they know They are her Subject's, and will partly with being, To do her service; yet since she is a woman, They will touch at her britch with their tongues, and that is all That they can hope for. A shout, and a general cry within, whores, whores. We are enchanted, And this is some illusion. Deseate not The soldiers hoped spoil.

Plot summary

Plot — The Maid of Honor
Before the start of the action, Aurelia, Duchess of Siena, refused a marriage proposal by Ferdinand, Duke of Urbino. In reprisal, Ferdinand attacked Siena, conquered it, but then found himself trapped inside the city by the regrouped Sienese troops. To raise the siege, he invokes a defensive treaty with Sicily, but King Roberto refuses to honour it because Ferdinand was the aggressor and has brought his troubles on himself. However, he allows his bastard half-brother Bertoldo to go to war with a volunteer army. The court favourite Fulgentio takes advantage of Bertoldu: absence to woo his fiancée, Camiola. But she misses Bertoldo and refuses Fulgentio; his mpaste 1s to produce Roberto’s ring and make it a reval order that she accept him. She wishes Bertoldo were present to defend her honour: another suitor. Adurni. steps in. fights a duel, and wounds Fulgentio, which gets him into trouble with the King. Far trom raising the siege. Bertolde is routed by Gonzaga, Aurelia’s general. Both men are kKrughts «1 Malta, and Gonzaga is affronted to find Bertalds: unmindtul of chivalry as to be leading an ara searnst a lady’s interests. Roberta seuds Astutio te ransens: the Sicilian prisoners of war, but Bertoldo from the payment of his ransam by any private cen © aiid, expressly crcbeudhe + a ' torbnds ihe arrangement and ignores the order and sends Adurnt Go pay the ratsern Bertoldy is released. abligation to marry Camtola: bat Aurelia asks 1) him, falls in love with huni. arranges a dispersaticn redoubling his ctstrae tee ered toe release him from his vow to marry © cate to Sicily with him to arrange Chere ortreniss wetunal intervenes, apparently to stop the weddtap. but tars: out that she has taken helv orders aed ab safer nunnery.