in The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon (2 Robin Hood) — Munday, Anthony; Chettle, Henry
Metadata
Play
The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon (2 Robin Hood)
Author
Munday, Anthony; Chettle, Henry
Year (catalogued)
1601
First performance
1598
Decade
1600s
Genre
Tragedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men
Speech prefix(es)
Chest. | Ch.
Words
462
Characters
2472
Typicality
0.23 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07897
BritDrama no.
1107
Cluster
Cluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 6 (armies, fleece, pestle, wonted, pikes, thundering…). Matches are highlighted.
My own sword shall maintain my tongues true speech: For it is not frequented to such lies, As wrangling Lester, and proud Richmond use: It cannot set out Like a thundering drum, Or roaring Canon, stuffed with nought but brags, The multitudes of seas died read with blood, And famous cities into cinders turned, By their two armed arms.
Full speech
As many died by me. Was his name Scarlet, that shot off his neck? But some my Lord affirm, That Julius Caesar many years before, Took such a Stag, and such a Poesy writ. Thou Wertenberg indeed. If it so please your Grace. I will describe my knowledge of this wretch. This Doncaster, for so the felon hight, Was, by the king your father, made a knight, And well in arms he did himself behave. Many a bitter storm, the wind of rage Blasted this Realm with, in those woeful days, When the unnatural fights continued, Between your kingly father and his sons. This cutthroat, knighted in that time of woe, Seized on a beauteous Nun, at Barkhamsted, As we were marching towards Winchester, After proud Lincoln was compelled to yield, He took this virgin straying in the field: For all the Nuns and every Covent fled The dangers that attended on our troops. For those sad times too oft did testify, Wars rage hath no regard of piety. She humbly prayed him, for the love of heaven, To guide her to her father's, two miles thence. He swore he would, and very well he might: For to the camp he was a Forager. Upon the way they came into a wood. Wherein, in brief, he stripped this tender maid: Whose lust, when she in vain had long withstood, Being by strength and torments overlaid, He did a sacrilegious deed of rape, And left her bathed in her own tears and blood. When she revived, she to her father's God, And God her father to make joust complaint, Unto your mother, being then in camp. And then he railed upon the Queen and me. Being committed, he his keeper slew, And to your father fled, who pardoned him. Nay Fryer, at request of thy kind friend, Let not thy Play so soon be at and end. Though Robin Hood be dead, his yeomen gone, And that thou thinkest there now remains not one, To act and other Scene or two for thee: Yet know full well, to please this company, We mean to end Matilda's Tragedy. Bruise hath been here, my Lord. How to her son did she affected stand? I by the Lord, my Lord, your open foe. My own sword shall maintain my tongues true speech: For it is not frequented to such lies, As wrangling Lester, and proud Richmond use: It cannot set out Like a thundering drum, Or roaring Canon, stuffed with nought but brags, The multitudes of seas died read with blood, And famous cities into cinders turned, By their two armed arms. What Richmond, will you prove a Runaway? Madame go too, take counsel of your friends, I warrant you the king will use him well.
Plot summary
Plot — The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntingdon (2 Robin Hood)
SimDoncaster. whose life was saved by RGbimjHGad, is ungrateful: jealous of Robin’s popularity, he tries to regroup his enemies, and wins over {H@§PHOr who agrees to poison Robin. Hearing of the Prior’s wondrous elixir, Robin invites EHEIKGG to taste it at a feast, but drinks it first himself; it proves to be poison. He accuses Doncaster and the Prior of treason — it also emerges that Doncaster is a rapist as well as a murderer ~— and they are sentenced to death. The King assigns the Prior’s lands, which were once Robin’s, to Mariani and, on his deathbed, Robin makes PHHE@JGlHin swear to treat Marian honourably and not to love her beyond the bounds of chastity. Marian reverts to her original name of Matilda. The King dies and is succeeded by John, who resists the temptation to invade Austria, disposes of Alpthur, the rival claimant to his throne, and marries [Sabél, who was already betrothed to another man. Obsessed with Matilda, however, he soon divorces Isabel, and unsuccessfully attempts to woo Matilda in a masque. Matilda’s allies, Bady§Briiée and her younger sGfi, are taken hostage and imprisoned. Seeking to remove her rival, Isabel confronts and assaults Matilda, but she is rescued by §HeiBrices. Though Matilda graciously attempts to exculpate her, Isabel’s behaviour causes her relationship with King John to deteriorate further. Seeking revenge on the entire Bruce family, John has Lady Bruce and her son starved to death. B@BEH is sent to apprehend Matilda, but she persuades him to let her escape and enter a nunnery. The rebel barons submit to the King on hearing that she is safe, but Matilda’s father is banished to France; John allows him to see his daughter before he goes, but asks that he persuade her to return to court. Suborned by John, tHe@JABbess and @imi6mK attempt to awaken her sexual feelings, and argue that her liaison with John will benefit the nunnery. When she refuses, John’s alternative plan comes into effect: she is given poison, and drinks it. Her fortitude strikes Baad, the murderer, with conscience, and he kills himself. EH@IQWEEH and @xford arrive in time to witness her stoical death, and they arrange a public funeral as a display of John’s cruelty. Arriving too late to save his mother and brother, MGUMpIBMiEe finds their bodies in a dungeon; she attempted to feed the boy with her own blood, but he refused to drink it. @heqDaupliin lands in England and Leicester declares him the elected King. Oxford remains loyal to John and tries…