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The Malcontent

Marston, John / Webster, John, published 1604 · tragicomedy · Adult Professional;Professional;Boys Professional · other editions of this work: 468 (1604) · other edition — not in the analysis

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TitleThe Malcontent
AuthorMarston, John / Webster, John
Publication year (edition)1604
Genre (British Drama)tragicomedy
Genre group (comparison)tragicomedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragicomedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional;Boys Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 203 · edition 470 · TCP A07074 · DEEP 361
Edition roleOther edition — placed after the fit, excluded from the main statistics; its chunks carry the topic they were placed in, for browsing
First performance / composition (Annals)1604 [1602-1604]
First performance (BritDrama)1603 [1602-1604]
Company (BritDrama)Children of the Chapel (second)
Company (Annals)Children of the Queen's Revels
Title-page companyKing's Men
PrinterSimmes, Valentine
PublisherAspley, William
FormatQuarto
STC17481
Greg203c
Genre (Annals)Tragicomedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragicomedy
BritDrama no.1391
Title pageTHE MALCONTENT.
Title-page performance noteWith the Additions played by the Kings Maiesties servants.
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10–22514T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.78SIR, the Gentlemen will be angry if you sit hear. Why? we may sit upon the stage at the private house: thou do…
223–49515T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.85I will not go so far with you, but I say, any man that hath wit, may censure (if he sit in the twelve-penny ro…
350–75492unassignedVery likely. By God I would he had, for I love Hector horribly. O but coz cousin. Great Alexander when he came…
476–101486T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.70From the public place of much dissimulation, What didst there▪ Talk with a Usurer: take up at interest. I wond…
5102–156506unassignedI marry be't philosophical Equato, & 'tis pity that thou being so excellent a scholar by art, shouldst be so r…
6157–210505T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.77Not sin? Why? Because (thanks to some churchmen) our age will leave them nothing to sin with. But adultery! O …
7211–257502T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.84'tis gone, 'tis swallowed like a mineral, some way 'twill work, phewt I'll not shrink," Hees resolute who can …
8258–270503T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.78Now good Elysium, what a delicious heaven is it for a man to be in a Prince's favour: O sweet God O pleasure! …
9271–323516T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.83Why when Emillia scorned his base unsteddines the black throated rascal scolded, and said. What? Troth 'tis to…
10324–385510T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.86I? come, come, sit, here's my bare heart to thee, As steady as is this centre to the glorious world. And yet h…
11386–407511T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.80It is too well, my bosom, and my heart, When nothing helps, cut off the rotten part. Who cannot feign friendsh…
12408–450490unassignedI am in haste, be brief. As your Fiddler when he is paid, he'll thrive I warrant you, while your young courtie…
13451–504492T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.82And I mine by the stroke of my friend. The close stock! o mortal wench: Lady, ha' ye now no restoratives for y…
14505–546505T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.79My Lords, the heavy action we intent, Is death and shame, two of the ugliest shapes That can confound a soul; …
15547–600495unassignedWe we are resolved what god has given us we'll cherish. Cherish any thing saving your husband, keep him not to…
16601–668508T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.89Ignoble villain, did I for this bestride Thy wounded limbs; for this? O God for this? Sunk all my hopes, and w…
17669–723511unassignedWilt fall upon my chamber to morrow morn? As a raven to a dunghill; they say there's one dead here, pricked fo…
18724–743495T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.73My Lord, I have some books which have been dedicated to my honour, and I near read 'em, and yet they had very …
19744–770507unassignedSurely I do wonder, how thou having, for the most part of thy life time been a country body, shouldest have so…
20771–806495unassignedWhat a natural fool is he that would be a pair of bodies to a woman's petticoat, to be trusst and pointed to t…
21807–856526T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.88I faith my Lord, that beast with many heads The staggering multitude recoils apace, Though thorough great men'…
22857–886528T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.84My hearts wish, my soul's desire, my fantasies dream, My bloods longing, the only height of my hopes, how O Go…
23887–910527T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.82I thank you; boy, what dost thou dream of now? Of a dry summer my Lord, for here's a hot world towards: but my…
24911–940527T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.82Medam, Medam, are you stirring Medam? if you be stirring Medam, if I thought I should disturb ye. My Lady is u…
25941–1001534T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.79Les quanto (Lady) penses bien, passaregis, or Beanch●es brawl. We have forgot the brawl. So soon? 'tis wonder.…
261002–1055485T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.83Then came I in, but 'las all was too late, For even strait he sunk. Such was the Duke's sad fate. A better for…
271056–1106515T1 Death, grief and revenge0.74Command our sudden Letter: not enter? shalt, what place is there in Genoa, but thou shalt, into my heart, into…
281107–1155499unassignedMy cell 'tis Lady, where instead of masks, Music, tilts, tourneys, and such court like shows, The hollow murmu…
291156–1200488T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.80Because you are an usurping Duke. Your Lordship's well returned from Florence. Well returned, I praise my hors…
301201–1232504unassignedWho doubts of providence, That sees this change, a hearty faith to all: He needs must rise, can no lower fall:…
311233–1267508unassignedAny thing but a rich knave, for I can flatter no man. Well be not drunk good fool, I shall see you anon in the…
321268–1292516T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.75O! believe me a most secret power, look ye a Chaldean or an Assyrian, I am sure 'twas a most sweet Iew told me…
331293–1323490unassigned'Gainst him that can enforce, how vain is strife? She that can be enforced has near a knife? She that through …
341324–1365488T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.79By the Lord thou art a profound lad. By the Lord thou art a perfect knave. out ye ancient damnation. Peace, pe…
351366–1394498unassignedWhy shape? why any quick done fiction, As some brave spirits of the Genoan Dukes, To come out of Elysium forso…
361395–1446489T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.77But is not Marshal Make-rome my servant in reversion, a proper gentleman. Yes in reversion as he had his offic…
371447–1502491T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.73Alas calamity, is every where. Sad misery despite your double doors, Will enter even in court. Peace. I ha' do…
381503–1558490T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.70Duke Altofront, Duke Altofront. Are we surprised? what strange delusions mock Our senses, do I dream? or have …