in The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt — Dekker, Thomas; Webster, John; Heywood, Thomas (?); Chettle, Henry (?)
Metadata
Play
The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Author
Dekker, Thomas; Webster, John; Heywood, Thomas (?); Chettle, Henry (?)
Year (catalogued)
1607
First performance
1602
Decade
1600s
Genre
History
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Worcester's Men
Speech prefix(es)
Clo: | Clo. | C •… o. | 〈◊〉 [Clown] | 〈◊〉 : [Clown] | 〈◊〉 . [Clown]
Words
375
Characters
1891
Typicality
0.54 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A20096
BritDrama no.
1369a
Cluster
Cluster 0 — Clowns, beggars & street sellers
Important excerpts
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Full speech
What shall we quarter Captain? The Counterfeit ̄ mons shall be used with all continued ̄ mon courtesy That goes in rank Like beans and chees -cakes on their heads in stead of Caps. Cry save the Queen as you go, and God send you a good market. Oh poor shrimpe, how art thou fallen away for want of mounching? Oh Colen cries out most tirannically, the little gut hath no mercy, whats here victuals? Oh rare! Oh good! Feed chops, drink throat, good vict ails makes good blood. But stay, whose here? more Sheriffs more searchers? Oh no, this is Homes that betrayed his honest Master, How, with a Halter about his neck? I hope he does not mean to hang himself? isle step a side. This is rare, now in this mood he would hang himself tuum re excellent. So, so, a very good ending, would all falce Servants might drink of the same sauce. Gold, you are firstmine, you must help To shift my self into some counterfeit suit Of apparel, and then to London: If my old Master be hanged, why so: If not, why rustic and lusticke: Yet before I go, I do not care if I throw this Dog in a Ditch: come away dissembler: this cannot choose but be a hundred pound it ways so heavy. Because he cannot keep his . A Spaniard is no Englishman that I know. A Dondego is a kind of Spanish Stockfish, or poor John. Marry they will make us all smell abhomi nably, he comes not here that's flat. That's the reason our Englishwomen love them not. Weel fling our flat Caps at them. Kill him, then le know him afterwards. Why they are not hanged nor drawn'e yet? May we not take tools of the pie & the aple-wo men What carry you there in your basket? Mat. Eggs or sooth. Well, cry God save Queen Jane as you go, and God S and you a good Market. I, , gone, . The pox, the plague, and all the diseases, the and can throw upon . What shall I have? . A would it were come to that to, we would, we would leave off Philips f ll to .
Plot summary
Plot — The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt
The King of England is dying. Northumberland and Suffolk conspire to disinherit his sister, Mary, in favour of Suffolk’s daughter, the reluctant Lady Jane Grey. When news arrives of the King’s death, they have her proclaimed Queen. Sir Thomas Wyatt, refusing to be a party to this, leaves court, and brings the news to Mary, who is living in frugal retirement. Northumberland and Suffolk raise an army against Mary, but Wyatt and the Lord Treasurer speak in the Council for a legal succession in accordance with the will of King Henry VIII. Mary is proclaimed Queen in London, and Lady Jane and her husband Guildford Dudley are arrested. Northumberland is ordered to discharge his troops and come to court, and is arrested. Suffolk is on the run. His servant, Holmes, brings him food, but also brings the Sheriff to arrest him. Holmes is paid well, but later strangles himself in remorse. Queen Mary begins to make fiscal arrangements, and reneges on her promise not to make any alteration in state religion: she plans to restore the Roman Catholic church. She also plans to marry Philip of Spain, contrary to the laws established by her father. Northumberland is executed. Disgusted at the prospect of Spanish infiltration, Wyatt raises rebellion in Kent. Part of Norfolk’s army defects to Wyatt on nationalist grounds, but when Pembroke bars the gates of London against him, his supporters slink away and he is arrested. Jane and Guildford are tried, and declare their innocence; Guildford notes that the commissioners were originally supporters of Northumberland in his attempt to influence the succession, and accuses them of hypocrisy. Though several commissioners want to seek clemency, the Bishop of Winchester sentences them to traitors’ deaths. Wyatt is taken to execution. Jane and Guildford are to die together; Jane is beheaded first. Guildford faints as he is taken away, but recovers to see her severed head, and is taken to the block.