Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

HOB

in Cambises, King of Persia — Preston, Thomas

Metadata

PlayCambises, King of Persia
AuthorPreston, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1570
First performance1561
Decade1570s
GenreTragedy
Play typeInterlude
Speech prefix(es)Hob, | Hob | Hob.
Words193
Characters955
Typicality0.43 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA10041
BritDrama no.480
ClusterCluster 11 — Tosspots & tavern railers

Important excerpts

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Full speech

Gods hat Naibor come away, its time to market to go Bum troth Naybor Lob to you I chil tell. Chaue two Goslings, and a Chine of good Pork: There is no vatter between this and York. Chaue a pot of Strawberyes and a Calves head: A zennight zince to morrow it hath been dead. No not well Naybor. whats that? Vorbod of God naibor, has he played such a volish deed? Bum vay Naybor Lob. I chousd he were dead. Oh gentleman you shall have two Pear pies and tell not of me. Chaue lived well all my life time my naybors among: And now chould be loath to come to such wrong. To be hanged and quartered the grief would be great: Thou liest Like a varlet, and thou zaist the same, It was such a voolish Lob as thou: If thou darest do it, else man cry creel. I trust before thou hurt me: With my staff chil make a Lob of Thee. Bum troth cham content, and zaist word neighbour Lob: Content wife Marian, chil do as thou dost say: But buss me ich pray Thee at going away.

Plot summary

Plot — Cambises, King of Persia
Gamibyses leaves Sisamimes in charge of his kingdom while he conquers Egypt. After a comic incident in which soldiers going to the war are beaten by a prostitute, the deputy, encouraged by AlmibiGextér, grows corrupt and takes bribes. Cambyses returns victorious and has him executed and flayed in the presence of Sisamnes’ son @tiaii, whom he appoints as his father’s successor. Praxaspes criticizes Cambyses’ drunkenness, so the King demonstrates his steady hand by shooting the courtier’s son dead. SHIEFAIE is also critical, but bides his time awaiting Cambyses’ death and his own succession to the throne; but Cambyses grows fearful of his ambition and has him murdered. After another comic incident in which Ambidexter first entraps two rustics into speaking ill of the King and then denounces them as traitors, Menus and @upid induce Cambyses into an_ incestuous marriage with a kinswoman. She criticizes him for the murder of Smerdis and he has her killed too. ===== PAGE 46 ===== Finally Cambyses accidentally impales himself on his own sword when leaping onto his horse, and dies. This is interpreted as divine punishment for his tyranny.