in Patient Grissel — Dekker, Thomas; Chettle, Henry; Haughton, William
Metadata
Play
Patient Grissel
Author
Dekker, Thomas; Chettle, Henry; Haughton, William
Year (catalogued)
1603
First performance
1600
Decade
1600s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men
Speech prefix(es)
Mari. | Ma.
Words
311
Characters
1644
Typicality
0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A20077
BritDrama no.
1230
Cluster
Cluster 12 — Wooers, gallants & courtly love-talk
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Fetch me a cup of wine. No my deer Lord. Your wisdom I commend that have y e power To raise or throw down as you smile or lower. If you say. Mario, do this I must in it obey. To banish them from Court were policy. She merits much of love, little of hate, Only in birth she is vnfortuuate. With wings we fly. Your wife (my gracious Lord) Is now delivered of two beauteous twins, A son and daughter. So Like my Lord, that the nice difference, Would stay the judgement of the curiousest eye. Indeed your cheeks bear a more lively colour I fly my gracious Lord. Exit. No, I unload you. Scoffingly. No my Lord. My deer Lord. Good Madame hence. So well Madame, that I rather with to play the beggar, then a Kings partly in it in Sir Owens ap parrell. We hear that she was born in Germany, And half heir to the Duke of Brandenburgh. My gracious Lord you do mistake your self. First satisfy these Princes, who expect Your gracious answer to their embassies, Then may you freely revel: now you fly Both from your own vows, & their amity. Why so I do. Headlong I had rather fallen to misery. Then see a beggar raised to dignity. Exeunt. They are, & I am thine: Lords look not strange, These two are they, at whose births envies tongue, Darted envenomed stings, these are the fruit Of this most virtuous tree, that multitude, That many headed beasts, nipped their sweet hearts, With wrongs, with bitter wrongs, all you have wronged her, My self have done most wrong, for I did try To break the temper of true constancy: But these whom all thought murdered are alive, My Griselda lives, and in the book of Fame, All world's in gold shall register her name.
Plot summary
Plot — Patient Grissel
Gwaltef has vowed to choose a wife. On the day of decision, he goes hunting instead, but leads his companions to the low-born (GHiSSil] whom he has been wooing in secret. D@WFe6) Grissil’s brother, comes home from university in poverty, but he and his father become courtiers after Gwalter and Grissil are married. Grissil becomes pregnant. Gwalter’s subjects object to his marrying beneath him. Though obsessively uxorious, he is determined to test her patience, and attempts to humiliate her by making her tie a servant’s shoe; she complies without protest. He then banishes her family from court; again she accepts this patiently. She gives birth to a twin son and daughter, and Gwalter has the babies taken away from her: they are sent to PaWia to be looked after by his brother, and Grissil is expelled from court. She ===== PAGE 196 ===== GRISSIL, Janicola’s daughter, Laureo’s sister: later Gwalter’s wife and mother of Prince Gwalter and the Princess; also called Lady Grissil returns to her father’s house, and Gwalter sends Fan to tell her she will never see her children again; he watches the conversation in disguise, and BABULO, Janicola’s man; formerly a traveller ‘accidentally’ drops a piece of gold to ensure that Master LAUREO, a poor young scholar; Janicola’s son, she will not starve. In the sub-plot, Eiiul6 and Siff{Oweni are rivals for Grissil’s brother; later uncle of Grissil’s children Two LapIgs attending Gwalter (sc.2, non-speaking) the Welsh widow GwWénthian, while others compete for - Gwalter’s sister, Jiilia. Emulo challenges Sir Owen toa = ATTENDANTS on Gwalter (sc.2, 5, non-speaking) duel, but then tries to back out of it; his later account of the duel is met with disbelief. Sir Owen marries Gwenthian, and she turns out to be a shrew. He asks Gwaltéf for advice on how to tame her, and is told to cut six osier twigs; Gwalter takes three and Sir Owen SIR OWEN ap Meredith, a Welsh knight; later keeps the others. Later, when Gwalter visits Sir Owen for dinner, GWénthiaW ruins the occasion: she has Gwenthian’s husband and Gwalter’s kinsman; also called Sir Meredith and Sir Owen Meredith allowed beggars to eat all the food, and turns up dressed in rags as a protest after Sir Owen tore the Lady GWENTHIAN, a Welsh widow, Gwalter’s kinswoman by marriage; later Sir Owen’s wife rebato she had bought. Gwalt@r spreads rumours that he plans to marry ONOPHRIO, a gentleman and a bachelor; also called Onophry again, and summons Grissil and her family to attend…