Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Coelum Britannicum (The British Heaven)

Carew, Thomas, published 1634 · masque · Occasional;Nonprofessional · other editions of this work: 1023 (1640)

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TitleCoelum Britannicum (The British Heaven)
AuthorCarew, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1634
Genre (British Drama)masque
Genre group (comparison)masque — from the British Drama label · Annals: masque
Play typeOccasional;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 496 · edition 1022 · TCP A73704 · DEEP 839
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1634 [Feb 18]
First performance (BritDrama)1634 [Feb 18]
Theaterbefore the Court;Whitehall;
PublisherWalkley, Thomas
FormatQuarto
STC4618
Greg496a
Genre (Annals)Masque
Genre (BritDrama)Masque
BritDrama no.2428
Title pageCœlum Britanicum. A MASQUE
Title-page performance noteAT WHITE-HALL IN THE BANQVETTING-HOVSE, ON SHROVE-TVESDAY-NIGHT, THE 18. of February, 1633.
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10–57563T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.80FRom the high Senate of the gods, to You Bright glorious Twins of Love and Majesty, Before whose Throne three …
258–60476unassignedPeace Railer, bridle your licentious tongue, And let this Presence teach you modesty. Let it if it can; in the…
361–69408T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.76No more impertinent Trifeler, you disturb The great Affair with your rude scurrilous chat: What doth the knowl…
470–70576T12 Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and 0.65Heaven! Heaven is no more the place it was; a cloister of Carthusians, a Monastery of converted gods, Iove is …
571–106533unassignedMomus thou shalt prevail, for since thy bold Intrusion hath inverted my resolves, I must obey necessity, and t…
6107–133495unassignedVice, that unbodied, in the Appetite Erects his Throne, hath yet, in bestial shapes, Branded, by Nature, with …
7134–146531unassignedWhereas we having observed a very commendable practice taken into frequent use by the Princes of these latter …
8147–211489T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.77If Virtue must inherit, she's my slave; I lead her captive in a golden chain, About the world: She takes her F…
9212–248481unassignedThe thirst of Empire, into Regal breasts, And frightedst quiet Peace from her meek Throne, Filling the World w…
10249–288492unassignedFor entertainment of this hour, I'll call A race of people to this place, that live At Nature's charge, and no…
11289–342485unassignedI come not here (you gods) to plead the Right By which Antiquity assigned my Deity, Though no peculiar station…
12343–404485unassignedAnd help each other, there were left no room For thy vain aid. Wisdom, whose strong-built plots Leave nought t…
13405–466520unassignedBewitching Siren, guilded rottenness, Thou hast with cunning artifice displayed Th' enameled outside, and the …
14467–548517unassignedRAise from these rocky cliffs, your heads, Brave Sons, and see where Glory spreads Her glittering wings, where…
15549–634502unassigned1.2.3. But shall not we, now thou art gone Who wert our Nature, wither, Or break that triple Union Which thy s…