Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

The Cruel Brother

Davenant, William, published 1630 · tragedy · Adult Professional;Professional

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TitleThe Cruel Brother
AuthorDavenant, William
Publication year (edition)1630
Genre (British Drama)tragedy
Genre group (comparison)tragedy — from the British Drama label · Annals: tragedy
Play typeAdult Professional;Professional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 427 · edition 926 · TCP A19876 · DEEP 748
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1627 [licensed for stage, Jan 12]
First performance (BritDrama)1627 [Jan]
Company (BritDrama)King's Men
Company (Annals)King's Men
TheaterBlackfriars;Indoor Professional
Theater typeIndoor
Title-page companyKing's Men
PrinterMathewes, Augustine
PublisherWaterson, John
FormatQuarto
STC6302
Greg427a
Genre (Annals)Tragedy
Genre (BritDrama)Tragedy
BritDrama no.2202
Title pageTHE CRVELL BROTHER. A Tragedy.
Title-page performance noteAs it was presented, at the priuate House, in the Blacke-Fryers: By His Maiesties Seruants.
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10–63485T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85I must not be so rude as to believe That you (my Lord) can your affections set; Upon a Maid, so humble in her …
264–128470T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85How can it choose But choke the very Soul, and bruise the Heart To think that such a giddy Snipe: a Fool (That…
3129–195501unassignedThe same. Because I never did desire To gain by being troublesome, I lost The dear benefit of the practic part…
4196–260468T40 Sin, guilt and violent loss within famil0.76Very well Sir! You, you must be a Satirist forsooth, Calumniate by instinct and inspiration. As if just Heaven…
5261–323465T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.82Heaven prosper your designs. What throngs of great impediments besiege The virtuous mind? so thick in multitud…
6324–393494unassignedBut yet observe (my Lucio) Th'unkind tricks of Nature: how we are fooled By a religious constancy in Love. A P…
7394–461487T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.79We do affect his thoughts Such industry Proclaims him fit for high designs: Some Men Attend the talking Drum, …
8462–528478T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.83Sa, sa, sa, A mutiny in Heaven! If there be; You are not likely to come Thither to appease it, first end this …
9529–595475T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.84I was assured before. This is the time, In which I shall oblige posterity Or fall (my wench) by flattering err…
10596–663495unassignedAnd I, Will join to make th'offence seem virtuous. Now interchange your souls. Where passion is So fond, it ca…
11664–732496unassignedThough Modesty would suffer me to boast, Yet 'twere not in the power of breath, to make My joy so known, as it…
12733–802478T35 Fools, wit and railing0.81Dull Caitiff, leave these abortive Provects, And talk in the newest fashion. I'll have My very Dug bark i'th' …
13803–877482T10 England and France: war, embassy and pea0.78Why this, is fit, and requisite. If Signior Lothario do consent. It is decreed. Who would hasten Time, when we…
14878–952523unassignedYour Grace deals justly in your praise. They (have Spirits: but they all are useless made, By forward and affe…
15953–1022490T23 Husbands, wives and jealousy0.83I hope your Grace hath thoughts more merciful. I know this match was made in Heaven; and not Provoked by any s…
161023–1097478unassignedYet had he lived, when the old Sibyl, Presented her divine Manuscripts, to The dull Roman; he would have scold…
171098–1167484T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.81read these Foreste. How Reputation lessens in esteem. Courtesy grows so cheap, that denial, Seems less trouble…
181168–1235488unassignedIndeed, I daily pray to have it so. Then he gave me this same jewel; to you He recommended the receipt of this…
191236–1303486unassignedBase stem, derived from I soap root, Our Ancestors were not so familiar. Behold, & grow more mannerly. What's …
201304–1372475unassignedTo wrong my boy, unkind, incestuous heat! Why is Copulation legal; it gives Authority to lust, for chastity Wo…
211373–1440482T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.87I beg of thee not to mistake the sense Of my designs. My words import my heart, And both, no danger unto thee.…
221441–1511511unassignedWhat, repent! I prithee sweet Duarte Wrong not Divinity so much: waste not A virtue, that would more profit ot…
231512–1586515T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.90Then Signior, you will oblige my prayers. At supper, when you departed from me, You gave demonstrations of dis…
241587–1655497T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.85O royal Villain! My joints and sinews dissipated are, And scattered in a trembling fear. But mark More sorrows…
251656–1728518unassignedA little more of this metal would puzzle My Geography; Is this Italy Or the Indies, There Borachio! Weep no mo…
261729–1800526T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.87Signior, I knew ye a brave Commander Under the great Petruchio; and since That time your constant virtues have…
271801–1872513unassignedStay, stay, O my Husband, my dearest Lord? Will you permit such cruelty against Your own Wife. She, that hath …
281873–1946500unassignedforest, No, no, my Stars, it is too much to bear, Though I were stomached like an ostrich, Yet could I not dig…
291947–2020532T1 Death, grief and revenge0.87ay there's the point. The giddy multitude Have neither skill, nor leisure to convince Supposition, with Argume…
302021–2092512unassignedOh, oh, oh— A Convulsion in her Arteries! Mercy Heaven! Hark! As she ascends, the Spheres do welcome her, With…
312093–2163519T1 Death, grief and revenge0.84Not for the world. Thou dost not know his Soul. He's of so soft, so sweet a property, That he enchants where h…
322164–2237504T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.91Had she included all propinquity Of blood; which lawful Marriage keepeth known, Or promiscuous Copulation, mak…
332238–2314498T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.84No, yet Lothario gives me notice: Of a noise far off: but you know the length Of an ass's ear. Pastes there (s…
342315–2385508unassignedAnd 'tis my duty Sir, to be most prompt In the observance. My Lord! A rude summons, that calls me as a judge, …
352386–2455475T0 Court life: dukes, favour and honour0.80Hell, and the pillory take such dull Ears. It cannot be, but they have passed the Cloisters, And ere this, wit…