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)
Bru. W. | B. W. | L. Br. | L. B. | La. | Wif. | Wi.
Words
445
Characters
2221
Typicality
0.29 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A07897
BritDrama no.
1107
Cluster
Cluster 21 — Old fathers & plain counsel
Important excerpts
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Full speech
But I will answer. Hubert, thou fatal keeper of poor babes, That are appointed hostages for John, Had I a son here, as I have not one (For yesterday I sent him into Wales ) Thinkest thou I would be so degenerate, So far from kind, to give him unto thee? I would not I protest: thou knowest my mind. But he wrongs me, to keep my Castle thus, Disarming my true servants, arming his. Now more of outrage comes, what shall I do? I have no son: come, come: come in and search, And if you find him, wretched may I be. What? be advised by thee, to have my loving, kind and pretty boy, given to and unkind killer of sweet boys? I, as he used his Nephew, Arthur Chester: God bless my child from being used so. What will he do! good lord, what will he do! The Castle Mowbray? tarry, tarry man, Hold me not Chester, gentle Mowbray stay: Good Hubert let me go. To led a many able men to fight. And modest looking maid, I see you too: And unfit sighed, to view virginity Guarded with other soldiers, than good prayers: But you will say the king occasions it. Say what you will, no king but would take cause? Of joust offence: yield you young Bruise: your mother is in hold. Yield you young maid: your father is in hold. Why did my keeper put us in thy hands? Wherein have we offended Blunt or thee? My trembling heart forbids me to go in. Oh if thou have compassion, tell me true, What my poor boy and I must trust unto? Well, thou hast sworn: and God so give thee light, As in this dark place thou remembrest us. Poor heart, thou laughest, and h st not wit to think, Upon the many fears that me afflict. I will not in help us, assist us Blunt. We shall be murdered in a dungeon. Oh let my boy and I but dine with Blunt, And then I will with patience go in. What sai st thou? never dine? My child is hungry, When shall he have meat? I will go in: but very much I doubt, Nor I, nor my poor bay shall ere come out. I am betrayed, alas I am betrayed, And little thought your Highness had be bent, So much against me, for my many loves, As to prepare and entrance for my foe. Oh madame, murder, mischief, wrongs of men I fear, I fear: what is't I do not fear? Sith hope is so far of, despair so near. Where thou shalt never see him, John.
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…