Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

MALIGO

in The Bride

Metadata

PlayThe Bride
Year (catalogued)1640
First performance1640
Decade1640s
GenreComedy
Play typeBoys Professional;Professional
CompanyBeeston's Boys
TheaterPhoenix/Cockpit;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)Mal.
Words217
Characters1119
Typicality0.19 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA07970
BritDrama no.576
ClusterCluster 20 — Conjurers, witches & physicians

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Your Servant Senior. Trust me sir you have the best sack of Spain. Why laugh you sir? make you no more account of so great and injury? It should be he by the description was made of him. We are commended to you by some friends of yours, that request for us your leave to see rarities and antiquiti ̄ es you have, and for which you are so much spoken of abroad in the world. May we have leave to walk to your house? Antiquities fir are grown of late good merchandise. Yet you are confident of yours that are of more doubt. You are happily met Mistress Bride. You are a brave woman. Yet had I opportunity— What a wanton tempting eye she hath? 'Tis most opportune. Please you to walk, and let my hand support you. I'll be your servant Lady. To do you manly service. How sir? He shall not touch you his belly is nothing but a tun full of read herring, and boiled water. A word in private. They go aside, and seem to threaten and challenge one another. You'll meet me then? But where's the gentlewoman? where hath the missed con cleal'd you? We must not so lose her. Her sweet heart! let us avoid him least we be discovered.

Plot summary

Plot — The Bride
Wit is charged by his father to woo and marry Wisdom, or lose his inheritance, Ignorance sends her son Idleness to mislead him. Posing as Honest Recreation, he introduces Wit to Wantonness, who gives him a fool's headdress and steals his money. Good Nurture restores him to sense and introduces him to the true Honest Recreation, whom Wit finds boring. Two sailors blindfold Idleness and rob him of the money he stole from Wit. Wit rescues Idleness and fights Irksomeness, who leaves him for dead. Wisdom revives him and promises to be his lady if he will kill Irksomeness. She gives him a sword, Perseverance, which he uses to behead the monster. Idleness is proclaimed an outlaw, and is arrested after he steals Mother Bee’s porridge pot while Doll and Lob are kissing in the barn. Wit falls into Fancy’s clutches and is imprisoned. Good Nurture releases him and takes him to be married to Wisdom. Idleness also intends to go to the wedding, disguised as a priest.