Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Begger. | Beg.
Words
527
Characters
2646
Typicality
0.39 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A12016
BritDrama no.
916
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
I Le pheeze you infaith. You're a baggage, the Slies are no Rogues. Look in the Chronicles, we came in with Richard Conqueror: therefore Paucas pallabris, let the world slide: Sessa. No, not a denier: go by Ieronimie, go to thy cold b worser warm thee. Third, or fourth, or fifth Borough, I'll answer him by Law. He not budge and inch boy: Let him come and kindly. For Gods sake a pot of small Ale. I am Christopher Sly, call not me Honour nor Lord ship: I never drank sack in my life: and if you give me any Con serves, give me conserves of Beef: never ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets then Backs: no more stock ings then legs: nor no more shoes then feet, nay sometime more feet then shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the oh ver leather. What would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old Slies son of Burton-heath by birth a Pedlar, by education a Cardmaker, by transmutation a Beare-heard, and now by present profession a Tinker. Ask Marrian Hacket the fat Alewife of Wincot, if she know me not: if she say I am not xiiii. worser. on the score for shear Ale; score me up for the lyingst knave in Christendom. What I am not bestraught: here's Am I a Lord and have I such a Lady? Or do I dream? Or have I dreamed till now? I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak: I smel sweet savours, and I feel soft things: Upon my life I am a Lord indeed, And not a Tinker, nor Christopher Sly. Well, bring our lady hither to our sighed, And once again a pot o'th smallest Ale. These fifteen years, by my say, a goodly nap, But did I never speak of all that time. I, the woman's maid of the house. Now Lord be thanked for my good amends. I thank thee, thou shalt not lose by it. Marry I fare well, for heereis cheer enough. Where is my wife? Are you my wife and will not call me husband? My men should call me Lord, I am your goodman. I know it well, what must I call her? Alce Madam, or Joan Madam? Madame wife, they say that I have dreamed, And slept above some fifteen year or more. It's much, servants leave me and her alone: Madam undress you, and come now to bed. I, It stands so that I may hardly tarry so long: But I would be loath to fallen into my dreams again: I will there before tarry in despite of the flesh and the blood. Marry I will let them play, it is not a Commonty, a Christmas gambold, or a tumbling trick? What household stuff. Well, we'll see't: Come Madam wife fit by my side, And let the world slip, we shall never be younger. Yes by Saint Anne do I, a good matter surely: Comes there any more of it? It's a very excellent piece of work, Madame Lady: would 'twere done. They fit and mark.
Plot summary
Plot — The Taming of the Shrew
: GHHStSpHEMSIy is ejected from a tavern after breaking some glasses and refusing to pay for them. A lord finds him in a drunken stupor, takes him home, and plays a prank on him: he is treated as if he is himself a lord who has just woken from a dream of being a beggar. Players visit the lord and he engages them to perform for Sly. ; In the play, BaptistalMindla refuses to allow his younger daughter Bidi@a to marry any of her suitors before her elder sister Kath@filia is married. Katherina is not considered a desirable wife: she is aggressive and disobedient. The rival suitors H@HEnSio and Greiilio agree to find someone to marry Katherina. Hortensio jokingly suggests the idea to his friend PEHWEEID, only to find that Petruccio is willing to co-operate, so long as Katherina brings an adequate dowry; Hortensio and Gremio agree to pay his expenses. Baptista asks the various suitors to provide schoolmasters to instruct Bianca, and two of them see this as an opportunity to get closer access to her: Hortensio poses as Bifi6, a music master, and gets Petruccio to present him to the household; and Digentio, a new arrival in Padua, poses as Cambio, a Latin teacher, while his servant [faiio assumes his identity and presents himself to Baptista as another suitor for Bianca. Petruccio woos Katherina by insisting on her beauty and refusing to rise to her bad behaviour. Afterwards he tells her father that she has consented to marry him, and pre-empts her contradiction by claiming they have agreed that she will remain contrary in public until the wedding. On the wedding day, he arrives late and inappropriately dressed, and behaves badly at the ceremony. As soon as they are married, he insists they leave for his home, rather than celebrate with | Katherina’s family and friends. At home, he violently abuses his servants, sees to it that she neither eats nor sleeps, and finds fault with her choice of new clothing. Baptista offers Bianca to ‘Lucentio’, so long as he can produce evidence to confirm that he can offer her a better financial settlement than Gremio. Lucentio and Tranio persuade a schoolmaster from Mantua that any . Mantuan found in Padua will be executed, and allow him to pose as Lucentio’s father, WiH@@Hiid} he underwrites Lucentio’s expectations, and the marriage is agreed. Hortensio decides to marry a wealthy widow, and visits Petruccio with the news. Petruccio and Katherina set out for Padua, but Petruccio will only leave when his wife agrees with him that…