Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Apollo and Daphne

Heywood, Thomas, published 1637 · classical legend or myth · Closet/Unacted;Nonprofessional

7chunks
3,385words
2topics
59 %unassigned

Metadata

TitleApollo and Daphne
AuthorHeywood, Thomas
Publication year (edition)1637
Genre (British Drama)classical legend or myth
Genre group (comparison)other/multi — no single main genre in British Drama or Annals → outside the single-genre comparison · Annals: dialogue
Play typeCloset/Unacted;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 529 · edition 1064 · TCP A03241 · DEEP 5105.02
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1635
First performance (BritDrama)1635 [1630-1637]
FormatOctavo
Greg529a
Genre (Annals)Dialogue
Genre (BritDrama)Classical Myth
BritDrama no.2509
Title page[HT; N1r] APOLLO and DAPHNE.
Corpus buildcorpus-v3-2026-09-08 · nodes 458 · witness single

Topic composition (share of words)

unassigned
58.6 %
27.4 %
13.9 %

Chunks in order

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10–69484unassignedWHy lovely Daphne, will you loose yo● Youth, And let your best hours pass yo● Well you know, beauty's a Flower…
270–138486T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.79Excellent Nymph, These are evasions mere unnecessary; We know you to be ripe, and ourselves grown, Betwixt us …
3139–198471unassignedTrust me, not I: I never looked so far into man and most sure I an, man never yet entered so far in●● me, that…
4199–259472T24 Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses0.87Weak brat resolve me, By whose enticement thou hast been so bold To take to thee the emblem of my power? Is't …
5260–316443T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.82His piercing beams I never shall endure, They sick me of a fatal Calenture. What are you better to be lovely b…
6317–383512unassignedSee, I an no Satire, Shepherd, or such as live by grazing herds, Delphos is mine, Pharos, and Tenedos: Thou kn…
7384–457517unassignedHave I not cause? when thou not only claimest The honour of my crop: But frozen Winter, He keeps a coil too, s…