Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

The Insatiate Countess

Marston, John / Machin, Lewis / Barkstead, William, published 1613 · tragedy · Boys Professional;Professional

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TitleThe Insatiate Countess
AuthorMarston, John / Machin, Lewis / Barkstead, William
Publication year (edition)1613
Genre (British Drama)tragedy
Genre group (comparison)tragedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragedy
Play typeBoys Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 315 · edition 721 · TCP A07067 · DEEP 599
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1607 [c.1607-1608; revised 1609-1613]
First performance (BritDrama)1610 [1608-1613]
Company (BritDrama)Children of the Queen's Revels (?); Children of the King's Revels (?)
Company (Annals)Children of the Queen's Revels
TheaterWhitefriars;Indoor Professional
Theater typeIndoor
PrinterSnodham, Thomas
PublisherArcher, Thomas
FormatQuarto
STC17476
Greg315a(i)
Genre (Annals)Tragedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragedy
BritDrama no.1605
Title pageTHE INSATIATE Countesse. A TRAGEDIE:
Title-page performance noteActed at White-Fryers.
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10–62521unassignedWHat should we do in this Countesses dark hole? She's sullenly retired, as the Turtle: Every day has been a bl…
263–120464unassignedWe obey you Lady. My Lord, with you I have some conference. I pray my Lord, do you woo every Lady In this phra…
3121–167497unassignedLearn of a well composed Epigram, A woman's love, and thus 'twas sung unto us: The Tapers that stood on her hu…
4168–183479unassignedPut it to equal arbitration, choose your friends, The Senators will think'em happy in't. I'll ne'er embrace th…
5184–239530unassignedGood my Lord learn to swear by rote: Your birth and fortune makes my brain suppose, That like a man heated wit…
6240–305504unassignedsignor Claridiana, I hope signor Rogero Thus employed me about a good office, 'Twere worthy Cicero's tongue, a…
7306–364498unassignedIf you think not this sufficient, you shall command me to be reconciled in another form, as a Rhimatrix or a r…
8365–407525unassignedAbove the Adamant the goats blood shall not break me, Yet shallow fools, and plainer moral men, That understan…
9408–459492T45 Widows, wooing and remarriage0.81O great act of justice! well, and my Husband come cleanly off with this, he shall ne'er betray his weakness mo…
10460–519517unassignedChange is no robbery: yet in this change Thou robbest me of my heart, sure Cupid's here, Disguised like a pret…
11520–587522unassignedWould I had changed places with you my Lord, would it had been my hap. What Cuckold laid his horns in my way? …
12588–610551unassignedSo to the house of Death the mourner goes, That is bereft of what his soul desired, As I to bed, I to my nupti…
13611–634523T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy0.77To be short sweet heart, I'll be true to thee, though a liar to my Husband: I have signed your husband's bill …
14635–695505unassignedFarewell wise-woman. Now 'gins my vengeance mount high in my lust: 'Tis a rare creature, she'll do't i'faith; …
15696–764526unassignedWhy dost thou come again? I bade thee go. If I say, Go, never return again. My blood, like to a troubled Ocean…
16765–825483T48 Addressing a lady: love, desire and inti0.67Zounds, is the Huritano coming? Claridiana what's the matter? The Countess of Swevia has new taken horse. Fly …
17826–888501unassignedNIght like a solemn Mourner frowns on earth, Envying that Day should force her doff her robes, Or Phoebus chas…
18889–932505unassignedThou more than man, love-wounded: joy and grief fight in my blood. Thy wounds and constancy Are both so strong…
19933–989486T1 Death, grief and revenge0.79Heyday; cross-ruff at midnight. Is't Christmas? You go a gaming to your neighbour's house. Dost make a Mummer …
20990–1051490T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.86Our loves are friendly twins, both at a birth; The joy you taste, that joy do I conceive, This day's the jubil…
211052–1101483T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.86Love me, or else by Ioue death's but delayed: My vow is fixed in heaven, fear shall not move me, My life is de…
221102–1158491unassignedWell, we will bring them to the Gallows, and then, like kind virgins, beg their lives, and after live at our p…
231159–1222488unassignedThou creature made by Love, composed of pleasure, That mak'st true use of thy creation, In thee both wit and b…
241223–1286484unassignedDear Love into my chamber, till I send My hate from sight. Lust makes me wrong my friend. Anna, stand here, an…
251287–1336485T1 Death, grief and revenge0.77I hope I did discharge my place with care. ushers should have much wit, but little hair; Thou hast of both suf…
261337–1379494T1 Death, grief and revenge0.78Fear not, I have a trick to bring us to hanging in spite of the Law. Why now I see thou lovest me; thou hast c…
271380–1442501T1 Death, grief and revenge0.83We sentence you to hang till you be dead: Since you were men eminent in place and worth, We give a Christian b…
281443–1508485T1 Death, grief and revenge0.87By my dead father's soul, my mother's virtues, And by my knight hood and gentility; I'll be revenged On all th…
291509–1572479unassignedThat death or danger, now shall ne'er remove, Go tell thy insatiate Countess Anna, We have escaped the snares …
301573–1632472unassignedAll shall be ordered fitting your command, For these three gifts which makes a Soldier rare, Is love and duty …
311633–1683491unassignedPerform your promise, and enjoy your pleasure, Spend my loves Dowry, that is women's treasure: But if thy reso…
321684–1736486unassignedBy my troth, if I had been his judge, I should have hanged him for having no more wit, I speak as I think, for…
331737–1798467T1 Death, grief and revenge0.74And this the crown of all my Actions, To purge the earth, of such a man turned monster. I never wronged thee S…
341799–1865507unassignedMedina, I thank thee not, give life to him, That sits with Risus, and the full cheeked Bacchus, The rich and m…
351866–1930472unassignedYou put me to my book my Lord, will not that save me. Yes madam, in the everlasting world. Amen, Amen. While t…
361931–1995498unassignedBear record all, you blessed Saints in heaven, I come not to torment thee in thy death: For of himself he's te…
371996–2054479unassignedAn host of Angels be thy convey hence. To funeral with her body, and this Lords: None here I hope can tax us o…
382055–2115491T1 Death, grief and revenge0.75A bastard, a bastard, a bastard: I might have lived like a gentleman, And now I must die like a Hanger on: Sho…
392116–2180507unassignedO that a man had the instinct of a Lion, He knows when the Lioness place falls to him: But these solaces, thes…
402181–2252500T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy0.80Peace, seducer, I am branded in the forehead With your star-mark. May the stars drop upon thee, And with their…