Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Alaham

Greville, Fulke, published 1633 · tragedy · Closet/Unacted;Nonprofessional

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TitleAlaham
AuthorGreville, Fulke
Publication year (edition)1633
Genre (British Drama)tragedy
Genre group (comparison)tragedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragedy
Play typeCloset/Unacted;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 489 · edition 1015 · TCP A02226 · DEEP 5101.01
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1600 [c.1598-c.1600]
First performance (BritDrama)1600 [1598-1600]
FormatFolio
Greg489a
Genre (Annals)Tragedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragedy
BritDrama no.1225
Title page[HT; D1r] ALAHAM
Corpus buildcorpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 2710 · witness single

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10–71505unassignedHOV Monster horrible! vnder whose vgly doome, Downe in Eternities perpetuall night, Mans temporall sinnes bear…
272–140512unassignedMy next charge is, from this darke Regiment With wiles to scourge this age effeminate; Not open force, or humo…
3141–205507T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.83Craft! Go thou forth, worke honor into lust. Malice! Sow in selfe-loue vnworthinesse. Feare! Make it safe for …
4206–272525T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.73The dayes be fresh, when all the world in hate With Mahomets supreme authority, The Basshas idly liu'd; no for…
5273–343533T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.81Now though by him the present state I gain'd, Yet to my after-ends this gaue no ayde: For their foundations on…
6344–409508T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.85Alaham! I grant these trialls be seuere: But know; temptation is misfortunes spie, To worke in resolution chan…
7410–479524T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.84Impossible is but the faith of feare; To make hope easie fetch beliefe elswhere. Yet lest these sparkes rak'd …
8480–547513T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.90MY Lord! So oft alone, pulls downe the heart To thoughts, and courses far vnmeet for it. Princes must show the…
9548–610489unassignedWho truth doe only but to hate it know, They nothing feare, but only to be good: Vnthankfulnesse is euer valia…
10611–675482unassignedBy whom? By them that hate, because they loue. And eithers kindnesse doe in mischiefe proue. What is my fault?…
11676–727533unassignedWE that are made to guard good men, and binde the ill, See both miscarried here below, against our power, and …
12728–777486T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.75Out of which fatall guide Alaham now vndertakes The ruine of his King, and father, for ambitions sake; Against…
13778–844518unassignedI will no more smother confusedly This inward warre, where modesty and shame Would subiect sense to duties Tyr…
14845–911518unassignedChance is not cast in moulds, like other Arts, Her counsells but the hope of rashnesse be; Aduice did neuer an…
15912–979520unassignedMischiefe! now claime thy due. Malice! feare not, To offer all thy sleights to wicked wits; Ruine lights not a…
16980–1045517unassignedThoughts! doe you blush? To Alaham what's ill? His death? Obarren wit, and sandie rage! No marble pillars, no …
171046–1107493unassignedMischiefe that may be help'd, is hard to know; And danger going on still multiplies. Let care as fast then add…
181108–1170489unassignedThen on: When thoughts vnite all care is ceas'd; The heart, vnfetter'd and the hope increas'd. Out of his deat…
191171–1237509unassignedThat is, to cherish Prince in their ill: For they must flatter good, and euill too, That vnder Princes all alo…
201238–1300500unassignedLet this beare witnesse: No false prophets know, The time, or manner of their ouerthrow. Nay let thy life, in …
211301–1361472unassignedMahomet! Thou hast o'recome: I yeeld, by thee To hold my life, as sentence of my fall; Thy worths example, no …
221362–1419476unassignedCraft, peace! thou cuttest euery threed so thin, As it destroyes thy works ere they beginne. Thy cobwebs, like…
231420–1479482unassignedAs men in your names image vglinesse, To checke beloued childrens wantonnesse, When they would haue them doe t…
241480–1543498T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.73I saw corruption was the way to rise, And with that shot I pierc'd their tyrannies. Their guard I did corrupt.…
251544–1608505unassignedBy these hands that owe seruice to the State, And by his blood haue made it fortunate. What execration did he …
261609–1672514T1 Death, grief and revenge0.81His name, and crime (sweet Lord) I long to know. Report of mischiefe doth infect the heart, And wisdome bids t…
271673–1740505unassignedBesides, thought-feeding rumor forth will goe, And occupie vnquiet peoples spirits, While in this pile for Cai…
281741–1815504unassignedFor whom doe you this sumptuous storme prepare? For whom are wiues estates inioyn'd to care? Is malice currant…
291816–1875474unassignedMadame! whom men obey, and God doth heare: What zeale, remorse, or charity doth moue Your heart? The King leau…
301876–1921493unassignedAre you afrayd poore Soules? Else why doe you descend To question, or conferre with vs, to whom you are no fri…
311922–1967483unassignedIn Alaham for instance, plead your power, or right; Entise him from a mortall Crowne, with your Crowne infinit…
321968–2029489unassignedVnder the next good, shaddow your deform'd excesse; Yet shall your masked arts, and hornes, your clouen feet e…
332030–2087481unassignedAnd is it nothing then to lose the State? Where chance is ripe, there counsell comes too late: Celica! by all …
342088–2150496T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.89Haue I not done amisse? Am I not ill, That ruin'd haue a Kings authority? And not one King alone; since Prince…
352151–2214486unassignedAh cruell, false, ambitious thirst of State! Bloody-like rage! but more reuengefull still, Because their ends …
362215–2282520T1 Death, grief and revenge0.81Good fortune Welcome! we haue lost our care, And found our losse: Celica distract I see; The King is neere: Sh…
372283–2344523unassignedTell yet where thou thy Father last didst see. Euen where he by his losse of eyes hath wonne, That he no more …
382345–2404480T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.85With bruit, and rumor, as with hope, and feare, You lay vs low, or lift vs from our earth; You trie what natur…
392405–2470498T25 Kings, power and law: political sententi0.83Chance now congratulates. This is indeed A Princely worke, and fashions nature new, To sacrifice the liuing to…
402471–2535508unassignedNow shall we know: Behold! I see one come, Whose looks bring woe, and horrour from that Tombe. Distract, confu…
412536–2594503unassigned" O God! 'Tis thou that suffrest here, not we: Wrong doth but like it selfe in working thus: " At thy will, Lo…
422595–2652477unassignedAh powerfull God! why do'st thou Thunders spend (By chance, or without vengeance) on the plants; Since it is M…
432653–2709483unassignedAh curst Mortality! So soone put out? And haue I lost the glory of Reuenge, If Fame find greater, as she goes …