Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Doctor. | Doc. | Doct.
Words
315
Characters
1637
Typicality
0.36 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A14872
BritDrama no.
1726
Cluster
Cluster 16 — Errand servants & brief parts
Important excerpts
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Full speech
If't please your Lordship: but he's instantly To take the air here in the Gallery, By my direction. Now let me come to him: Are you mad (My Lord?) are you out of your Princely wits? A very pestilent disease (my Lord) They call Licanthropia. I'll tell you: In those that are possessed with't there overflows Such mellencholy humour, they imagine Themselves to be transformed into Wolves, Steal forth to Churchyards in the dead of night, And dig dead bodies up: as two nights since One met the Duke, about midnight in a lane Behind St. Marks Church, with the leg of a man Upon his shoulder; and he howled fearfully: Said he was a Woolffe: only the difference Was, a Woolffes skin was hairy on the outside, His on the Inside: bade them take their swords, Rip up his flesh, and try: straight I was sent for, And having ministerd to him, found his Grace Very well recovered. Yet not without some fear Of a relapse: if he grow to his fit again I'll go a nearer way to work with him Then ever Paraclesus dreamed of: If They'll give me leave I'll buffet his madness out of him. Stand aside: he comes. I must do mad tricks with him, For that's the only way on't. I have brought Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you For sunburning. The white of a Cockatrixes-egge is present remedy. Now he begins to fear me, Now let me alone with him. Let me have some forty urinals filled with Rosewater: He, and I'll go pelt one and other with them, Now he begins to fear me: Can you fetch a frisk, sir? Let him go, let him go upon my peril: I find by his eye, he stands in awe of me, I'll make him, as tame as a Dormouse. True, I was somewhat to forward.
Plot summary
Plot — The Duchess of Malfi
There are two new arrivals at the Duchess of Malfi’s court. One is Antonio, her steward, who has returned from an extended visit to France. The other is Bosola, an ex-convict who committed a murder for the Cardinal, and who is now placed at court by the Duchess’s brother Ferdinand, with instructions to supply information. Ferdinand and the Cardinal leave the court, enjoining their sister not to marry again, but she defies them and secretly woos and marries Antonio. She clandestinely gives birth to a son, which Bosola discovers after Antonio accidentally drops the baby’s horoscope. The news is duly reported to the infuriated Ferdinand. The Duchess has two more children. Ferdinand visits Malfi, planning to marry her to Count Malateste. He visits her private chamber and catches her talking to Antonio, whose identity remains unknown because he has hidden as part of a practical joke. She banishes Antonio as a pretext to get him out of court, and follows him on a feigned pilgrimage to the state of Ancona. Bosola wins her confidence by speaking well of Antonio, unlike the other court flatterers; she entrusts him with the secret of their marriage, which he duly reports to his paymaster. The Cardinal is commissioned to fight in the war, and ceremonially puts off his ecclesiastical office. By papal decree, the Duchess and Antonio are banished ===== PAGE 347 ===== 1613 from Ancona and the Duchy of Malfi is seized by the Holy See; Antonio flees to Milan with his eldest son, and Bosola arrests the Duchess. Acting on Ferdinand’s orders, he imprisons and torments her, shows her the dead bodies of Antonio and her son (which turn out to be waxworks), and finally supervises her and her younger children’s murder. Ferdinand disowms him, then goes mad with lycanthropic delusions. The Cardinal schemes to have Antonio’s lands confiscated, poisons his mistress, and inadvertently reveals to Bosola his part in the Duchess’s death. Seeking revenge, Bosola mistakenly kills Antonio in the dark. In his madness, Ferdinand kills the Cardinal and Bosola, who kills him in turn. Delio decides to advance the rights of Antonio’s surviving son.