in Monsieur Thomas (Father's Own Son) — Fletcher, John
Metadata
Play
Monsieur Thomas (Father's Own Son)
Author
Fletcher, John
Year (catalogued)
1639
First performance
1615
Decade
1630s
Genre
Comedy
Play type
Adult Professional
Company
Unknown
Theater
Blackfriars;Indoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Sam. | Sam | Sam,
Words
509
Characters
2672
Typicality
0.30 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
B13574
BritDrama no.
1788
Cluster
Cluster 17 — Intriguers & schemers
Important excerpts
Passages from this character's speech that contain the most distinguishing words for Cluster 17 (nat, leaguer, assyrian, mowche, bashas, andalle…). Matches are highlighted.
deadly hand: thou never fightest yet, Not of my conscience hast no faith in fighting. To pay him with a project: Watch him too, I would wish you: prithee tell me, Dost thou affect these women still? Dost thou love any woman? Of any age too? And defect too? It's well sir, You make so worthy uses: but quid igitur, What shall we
Full speech
The same Same still: your friend sir. He never perceives they Longer then looking on. Why you may take a Maid. Only his eyes: and Oh my conscience They lie with half the kingdom. Oh the Gentleman, The young smug Signiour, Master Ʋ alentine, Brought out of travel with him, as J hear Is fallen sick o'th sudden, desperate sick, And likely they go thither. Ther's one can better satisfy you. Never look so narrowly, the mark's in her mouth still, Pray sir be temperate, You know your own state best. A learned question: Or grant the diaphragm by a rupture, The sign being then in the head of Capricorn. And we'll be gone all together. Be ruled though. Your mind is too mistrustful. Thou hast her. Not I. At your will sir. Exit Hyl. & Same. You must be courting wenches Through key-holes, Captain Hylas, come and be comforted, The skin is scarce broke. How do you sir? Here's a night indeed. Thou hadst as good be quiet, for of my conscience He'l put another on thee else. Thou art ever ready To thrust thy self into these she occasions, And he as full of knavery to accept it. That will not be amiss, but to fight with him Is to no purpose: beside, he's truly valiant, And a most deadly hand: thou never fightest yet, Not of my conscience hast no faith in fighting. To pay him with a project: Watch him too, I would wish you: prithee tell me, Dost thou affect these women still? Dost thou love any woman? Of any age too? And defect too? It's well sir, You make so worthy uses: but quid igitur, What shall we now determine? Let's find him first, he'l quickly give occasion, But take heed to your self, and say I warned you: He has a plaguy pate. WHere hast thou been man? What's the matter? Thou art not married? To whom prithee? I thought there was some such trick in't, you stole from me But who, for heaven sake? But who Hylas? Who, Monsieur Thomas? Oh now I smell you Hylas. Do's he know of it? Is there no trick in't? She's a brave wench. Take heed Hylas, Why there's the gentlewoman, How strange she bears it? By heaven, thou art abused still. Let me not live more if thou be'st not cozens, I told you. I told you what you had done. What do all these here? J still told you. Take her, and use her well, she's a brave gentlewoman. Most excellently argued. I have lost of purpose: now if I can With all the art I have, as she comes back, But win a parley for my broken pate, Off goes her maidenhead, and there's vindictam. They stir about the house, I'll stand at distance. Exit. B side the quarrel, Which has a woman in't, to make it scurvy, Who would lie stinking in a Surgeons hands A month or two this weather; for believe it, He never hurts under a quarters healing.
Plot summary
Plot — Monsieur Thomas (Father's Own Son)
Old Valentine returns home from a Continental tour with a new young friend, Francis. Francis falls ill and is attended by physicians, but Valentine learns that he is really sickening for love. Unfortunately the woman who interests him is Valentine’s own intended, Cellide. Valentine asks Cellide to offer herself to Francis. Though offended, she does so, but Francis will not betray Valentine by accepting. Witnessing the encounter, Valentine gives his blessing to their union. Both Francis and Cellide abscond from the household: Francis attempts to join a merchant ship, but is apprehended by Valentine’s friend Michael; Cellide enters a nunnery. Thomas also returns home from travels abroad, thoroughly Frenchified. To his father Sebastian, who prizes the family tradition of madcap eccentricity, he behaves with unwelcome sobriety. To his sweetheart Mary, who would like him to calm down, he is grossly rude, to the extent of sending her a letter full of offensive oaths. He then serenades her late at night with bad music, and climbs up to the window to kiss her. Mary responds with a practical joke: when he reaches the window, Thomas finds himself kissing a servant in a devil mask; startled, he falls and hurts his legs. When Thomas denies his servant’s report of their riotous night, Sebastian pays him his portion and decides to marry again and beget an heir more like the father; but Thomas prevents him by claiming to have already slept with every woman he has in mind — which proves to Sebastian that he still has some sparks of kinship. Thomas plans to gain access to Mary dressed as his own sister, Dorothy; but Dorothy tips off Mary in advance. Sebastian tries to stop ‘Dorothy’ sneaking out at night, and gets a beating for his pains. Valentine also encounters ‘Dorothy’ and asks ‘her’ to visit the nunnery and intercede with Cellide for him; Thomas agrees, relishing the opportunity to chat up some pretty nuns. He is eventually shown into Mary’s bedroom, only to find an amorous blackamoor maid waiting for him: Dorothy and Mary have played. another practical joke. Leaving the house, still posing as Dorothy, Thomas is accosted by the womanizing Hylas, but insists on their marrying before Hylas may have his way with ‘her’. Hylas agrees, and the ceremony is performed; Hylas looks forward to the wedding night. Meanwhile Thomas visits the nunnery and is taken for a spirit; the Abbess attempts to exorcise him. Hylas meets the real Dorothy, who denies ail knowledge of the…