Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

ALBANOIS

in The Whore of Babylon — Dekker, Thomas

Metadata

PlayThe Whore of Babylon
AuthorDekker, Thomas
Year (catalogued)1607
First performance1606
Decade1600s
GenreAllegorical History
Play typeAdult Professional
CompanyPrince Henry's Men
Speech prefix(es)Alba.
Words234
Characters1203
Typicality0.31 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA20092
BritDrama no.1500
ClusterCluster 14 — Law & judgment

Important excerpts

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Full speech

No marry Sir-An Albanois, I pray be apert and plain. Propone it Sir, I'll solve it as I can. Umh: ya're full of Ambage: I answer as my spirits lead me, thus, I would not do it. Because I hold, Quod non omninò Licet. Sir I see to'th bottom, Of this deep well you dive in: I do arm you, In this strong fight, joust with the self same weapons Which I would wear to guard me, and those are My readings and belief settled by reading, And this I find- Quod non sunt fancy ̄ Dam mala, ut we jant For good; (how great soever) must be done, no ill how small soever. All good must not be done, but only that- Quod benè & legitimè fieri potest: For Sir I know, that Deus magis amat adverbia quam nomina. Quia in actionibus magis et Placent Benè & legitimè quam bonum. Ita ut nullum bonum Liceat sacere, nisi been & legi ime fieri potest. Quod in hoc Casum fieri non potest. Those learned men perhaps may hold it fit, That to save many, they to one men danger, (Referring all to the depth inscrutable) May allow of a particular; on no warrant That they can show me written, but being stirred, With a human compassion to men's lives: And less you revelation have divine, That bids you do, do not; Thus you have mine.

Plot summary

Plot — The Whore of Babylon
WitaHid becomes Queen of Fairyland and restores respect to Truth and her book; friars, cardinals, and other ecclesiastical figures are expelled from the kingdom. All this infuriates theiBmpressioriBabylony who had banished Truth to the wilderness, claiming her to be an impostor. She sends three Kings to Fairyland to seduce Titania, while Cardinalg@omoG sends agents to convert the populace at grass roots level. The Kings woo Titania with a masque, but, advised by her fairy lords, she rejects them. Two of the Kings leave Fairyland, but the third, Satyrane} stays on to plot against her; one of his stratagems entails a magical attack via a wax effigy, but the conjurer is caught burying it in a dunghill and arrested. Titania pardons her physician, DejParidelly who has ~ been sentenced to death on a charge of attempted murder, but he secretly resents being beholden to her. He secures her permission to travel abroad, where he is recruited as an agent of Babylon. She refuses to receive the malcontented scholar @amMipeiis at court. He encounters Satyrane, who sympathizes with his annoyance at Fairyland’s treatment of academics, assures him that they are better used overseas, and persuades him to defect to Babylon. Since marriage overtures have failed, the Empress’s policy turns to assassination. She receives Campeius and the physician Ropus and sends them back to Fairyland. Traitors emerge out of the earth, summoned by Falsehood posing as Truth, but all are identified and arrested: Titania spots one whom her lords have overlooked, and Ropus is found out when he gives her a medication which turns out to be poison. Campeius too is captured. Meanwhile Paridell is also persuaded to undertake the murder, but he insists on having written authority for it from Cardinal Como. Como points out to the Empress that, even if Titania is killed, her successor will be just as hostile to Babylon. An even more aggressive policy is required, to lay waste the entire kingdom with an Armada. Paridell returns to Fairyland and tells Titania that he has acted as a double agent to discover Babylon’s plots; but he confides his true intentions to a kinsman. She grants him a private audience, and, after a struggle with his conscience, he draws his dagger and is caught in the act, betrayed by his kinsman. Meanwhile, the Armada ===== PAGE 297 ===== 1606 is under sail. Titania lays plans for the defence of Fairyland, and reviews the troops. After a sea battle, the Babylonian fleet is vanquished,…