Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Topic 8 — Captains, gallants and cheats

Dominant work: The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The Puritan Widow) · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 83%; romance 5%; tragedy 4%

134chunks
66,127words
44works
18works with ≥3 chunks
8 %dominant work
23 %top-3 works

All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 156 chunks · 48 works · 76,942 words — those 22 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.

Classification cross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · confirmed by the researcher
Label (researcher): Captains, gallants and cheats
Notes (researcher): sample review supports a captain/gallant social domain, including evasion of payment, wealth-based friendship and quarrelling. Include broadly; fraud is a recurring possibility rather than a universal action. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 1004_00031; 1049_00027; 444_00028.
Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Captains, gallants and cheats · pattern basis: thematic_discourse
134 chunks, 44 works (18 with 3+), Puritan 8 %. Braggart captains, gallants, rogues and their tricks: money owed, tavern bills, bawds, conjuring for hire; Middleton, Chapman, Dekker, Jonson, Mayne. Cross-work theme.
chunks read for the draft: 591_00031;695_00028;444_00018;1118_00032;422_00022;422_00019;1118_00012

In the analyses: author comparisons for this topic · this topic by decade.

Keywords

Class-TF-IDF (uniform rule)

captainmastermoneygentlemanlittlelieutenantrogueprayminoshonest

KeyBERT-style (cosine of word to topic centroid)

captaingentlemenknightgentlemanroguemistressrascalgeorgeladygod

MMR (diversified)

captainpraygentlemanmistressrascalknightmoneydrinksirrahrogue

Amber = capitalised in ≥80 % of occurrences (probable name). Keywords are computed on the unmasked text.

Most typical chunk of each of the leading works

Middleton, Thomas, 1607 · comedy · 11 chunks of this work here
I understand that you are my kinsman's good Master, and in regard of that, the best of my skill is at your service: but had you fortuned a mere stranger, and made no means to me by…
May Day typ. 0.87
Chapman, George, 1611 · comedy · 11 chunks of this work here
Well, 'twill not be for any man to follow him, if this were known once. Lord how all the boys in the town would flock about him as he walks the streets, as 'twere about a bagpipe, …
Dekker, Thomas, 1602 · comedy · 9 chunks of this work here
Honoured Captain. Art not famous enough yet, my mad Horastratus, for killing a Player, but thou must eat men alive? thy friends? Sirrah wild-man, thy Patrons? thou Anthropophagite,…
Marmion, Shackerley, 1633 · comedy · 8 chunks of this work here
Sir you have built a sconce since you came in of thirty pounds, and before you have any more, my Master intends to be satisfied. What money have you brother? Who I? O Lord brother …
Jonson, Ben, 1602 · comedy · 7 chunks of this work here
Nay, and thou dalliest, than I am thy Foe, And Fear shall force, what Friendship cannot win; Thy Death shall bury what thy life conceals, Villain! thou diest, for more respecting h…
The City Match typ. 0.81
Mayne, Jasper, 1639 · comedy · 7 chunks of this work here
I have seen service, Sr. Captain I love Men of the sword, and buff, and if need were I can roar too, and hope to swear in time, Do you see, Captain. Nay Captain we have brought you…
Glapthorne, Henry, 1640 · comedy · 6 chunks of this work here
sum me Captain, 'tis not requisite he should put off his Breeches. Thanks good Captain Pirke, 'twas a friendly touch that May not his transitory money serve to excuse his breeches?…
The Phoenix typ. 0.90
Middleton, Thomas, 1607 · comedy · 5 chunks of this work here
Oh why do you so wilfully cherish your own poison? and breath against the best of life, chaste credit. Well may I call it chaste, for like a Maid Once falsely broke it ever lives d…

Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)

comedy
111 (83 %)
romance
7 (5 %)
tragedy
6 (4 %)
tragicomedy
3 (2 %)
history
2 (1 %)
masque
2 (1 %)
not in BritDrama
2 (1 %)
tragedy; history
1 (1 %)

This is the direction topic → genre, on the raw British Drama labels; the share of each genre group's text that falls in this topic is on the Genre page.

Works

The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Str (11), May Day (11), Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the H (9), A Fine Companion (8), Poetaster, or The Arraignment (7), The City Match (7), The Hollander (Love's Trial) (6), The Phoenix (5), The Scornful Lady (5), Eastward Ho (4), Northward Ho (4), A Mad World, My Masters (4), Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (4), The Trial of Chivalry (This Gallant Cava (3), Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks (3) …

Excerpts

A Fine Companion (1633) · typ. 0.90
Sir you have built a sconce since you came in of thirty pounds, and before you have any more, my Master intends to be satisfied. What money have you brother? Who I? O Lord brother Captain, I have not the third part of it. No matter, I ne'er think upon such transitory…
The Phoenix (1607) · typ. 0.90
…fully cherish your own poison? and breath against the best of life, chaste credit. Well may I call it chaste, for like a Maid Once falsely broke it ever lives decayed. O Captain, husband, you name that Dishonest, By whose good power all that are honest live, What madness is it to speak ill of that, Which makes all men speak well, take awa…
A King and No King (1619) · typ. 0.89
…llow beagle. A this side good my Lord. Off with your swords, for if you hurt my foot, I'll have you flayed you rascals. Mines off my Lord. I beseech your Lordship stay a little, my strap's tied to my codpiece point: Now when you please. Captain, these are your valiant friends, you long for a little too? I am very well, I humbly thank your…
Poetaster, or The Arraignment (1602) · typ. 0.89
…Sirrah; do: 'twill allay your fellows Fury a little. Master, mock on: the scorn thou givest me, Pray Ioue some Lady may return on thee: No: you shall see me do the Moor: Master, lend me your scarf a little. Here, 'tis at thy service, Boy: You, Master Minos, hark hither a little. Exeunt. How dost like him? art not rapt? art not tickled now…
Thierry and Theodoret (1621) · typ. 0.89
… of god man thou hast a bony countenance, comrade man of vrship, St. Tavy be her patron, out upon you, you uncurried colts, walking cans that have no souls in you, but a little rosin, to keep your ribs sweet, and hold in liquour. Why, what would you have us to do Captain? Beg, beg, and keep Constables waking, wear out stocks and whipcord,…
Ram Alley, or Merry Tricks (1611) · typ. 0.88
…Slop, The City dog-master? Not today sir. What have you for my supper. Nothing ready Unless you please to stay the dressing Captain, zounds stay the dressing; you damned rogue, What shall I wait upon your greasy cook, And wait his leisure, go down stairs rogue, Now all her other customers be served, Ask if your Mistress have a snip of Mut…
A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates) (1612) · typ. 0.87
… courtly and high, It's want of merit that breeds jealousy, From which I know you clear. As I am from covetousness: how their eyes strike each other? Rabshake— Here sir. Captain, your gold. He saw our eyes meet, no matter, may I cool my heat Let the world burn. Thy counsel Voada. I do not like this fellows looks, Rabshake. He hath a hangi…
The Scornful Lady (1616) · typ. 0.87
… and Captain do your complement. Savil, I dare swear is glad at heart to see you: Lord, we heard Sir you were drowned at Sea, and see how luckily things come about? This money must be paid again Sir? No Sir, pray keep the sale, 'twill make good tailors measures? I am well I thank you. By my troth the Gentleman has stewed him in his own sa…
Epicene, or The Silent Woman (1616) · typ. 0.87
…id you marry one then, Captain? A pox— I married with six thousand pound, I▪ I was in love with that. I ha' not kissed my fury, these forty weeks. The more to blame you, Captain. Nay, mistress OTTER, hear him a little first. She has a breath worse than my grandmothers, profecto. O treacherous liar. Kiss me, sweet master TRVE-WIT, and prov…
May Day (1611) · typ. 0.87
…? where's your Mistress, that you range thus at your pleasure? In health sir I trust. Come forward you rogue you: come forward, whither creep you behind so? where's your Mistress sir? At a poor woman's labour sir. Very well sir, come Lieutenant, go you afore, and do you follow him sir. What afore my Captain sir: you shall pardon me. Afore…
A Fine Companion (1633) · typ. 0.87
… tell you, I love a noble employment with my life, but for such a pitiful, drunken, shallow coxcomb, I hate to be seen in such a business. Do you think no better of him, Captain? if he be so unworthy, I would advise you not to meddle with him. By the faith of a Soldier, if he have any care of his credit, let him not deal with him, he will…
A King and No King (1619) · typ. 0.87
Now Captain Bessus, I come about a frivolous matter, caused by as idle a report: you know you were a coward. Very right. And wronged me. True my Lord. But now people will cal…

All 134 chunks of the representative editions (chronological; click a header to sort)

chunkplayauthorpublishedgenrewordstypicality
147_00026Fedele and Fortunia (Two Italian Gentlemen)Pasqualigo, Luigi / Munday, Anthon1585comedy5060.779
319_00005Mucedorus (and Amadine)Anonymous1598romance4620.830
378_000172 Henry the FourthShakespeare, William1600history5110.789
345_000181 Edward the FourthHeywood, Thomas1600history4980.780
422_00023Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4920.894
444_00027Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4690.854
444_00026Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy5010.847
422_00020Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4990.847
444_00018Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4890.844
444_00010Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4800.844
422_00019Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4790.830
444_00017Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4910.806
444_00024Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4950.798
422_00021Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4870.796
422_00027Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4960.790
422_00022Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4880.789
422_00024Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1602comedy4940.789
444_00008Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4810.773
444_00020Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4790.763
444_00028Satiromastix, or The Untrussing of the Humorous PoetDekker, Thomas1602comedy4870.750
494_00017The Trial of Chivalry (This Gallant Cavaliero Dick BowyAnonymous1605romance4700.797
514_00023Eastward HoChapman, George / Jonson, Ben / Ma1605comedy4960.780
494_00016The Trial of Chivalry (This Gallant Cavaliero Dick BowyAnonymous1605romance4740.764
514_00029Eastward HoChapman, George / Jonson, Ben / Ma1605comedy5230.757
514_00017Eastward HoChapman, George / Jonson, Ben / Ma1605comedy5200.748
514_00025Eastward HoChapman, George / Jonson, Ben / Ma1605comedy4820.743
494_00009The Trial of Chivalry (This Gallant Cavaliero Dick BowyAnonymous1605romance4780.742
573_00014The PhoenixMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4810.899
590_00013Northward HoDekker, Thomas / Webster, John1607comedy5240.866
591_00025The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy5200.848
591_00006The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4870.839
591_00024The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy5040.829
591_00009The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4700.816
591_00032The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4900.814
573_00003The PhoenixMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4840.807
591_00031The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4840.806
591_00023The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy5030.800
590_00012Northward HoDekker, Thomas / Webster, John1607comedy4990.790
573_00016The PhoenixMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4810.788
591_00029The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy5010.785
591_00008The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4690.780
573_00015The PhoenixMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4860.778
591_00007The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4910.777
581_00018Cupid's WhirligigSharpham, Edward1607comedy4940.767
591_00030The Puritan, or The Widow of Watling Street (The PuritaMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy4940.765
573_00009The PhoenixMiddleton, Thomas1607comedy5020.762
590_00028Northward HoDekker, Thomas / Webster, John1607comedy4910.754
590_00024Northward HoDekker, Thomas / Webster, John1607comedy4980.746
651_00001A Mad World, My MastersMiddleton, Thomas1608comedy4980.854
651_00000A Mad World, My MastersMiddleton, Thomas1608comedy5130.845
651_00010A Mad World, My MastersMiddleton, Thomas1608comedy4970.841
651_00021A Mad World, My MastersMiddleton, Thomas1608comedy4770.809
683_00029Ram Alley, or Merry TricksBarry, Lording1611comedy4960.882
695_00039May DayChapman, George1611comedy5120.872
696_00040The Roaring Girl, or Moll CutpurseDekker, Thomas / Middleton, Thomas1611comedy4930.865
695_00018May DayChapman, George1611comedy5040.862
683_00020Ram Alley, or Merry TricksBarry, Lording1611comedy4990.853
695_00017May DayChapman, George1611comedy5050.836
695_00005May DayChapman, George1611comedy4930.834
683_00021Ram Alley, or Merry TricksBarry, Lording1611comedy4870.827
695_00006May DayChapman, George1611comedy4920.821
695_00019May DayChapman, George1611comedy5060.813
695_00030May DayChapman, George1611comedy4860.782
696_00039The Roaring Girl, or Moll CutpurseDekker, Thomas / Middleton, Thomas1611comedy5020.763
695_00029May DayChapman, George1611comedy5140.762
695_00028May DayChapman, George1611comedy5110.758
695_00036May DayChapman, George1611comedy5000.734
696_00038The Roaring Girl, or Moll CutpurseDekker, Thomas / Middleton, Thomas1611comedy5100.696
695_00037May DayChapman, George1611comedy5100.647
698_00009A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)Daborne, Robert1612tragedy4980.875
697_00006A Woman Is a WeathercockField, Nathan1612comedy5010.869
697_00007A Woman Is a WeathercockField, Nathan1612comedy5060.842
698_00010A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)Daborne, Robert1612tragedy4990.836
697_00004A Woman Is a WeathercockField, Nathan1612comedy5050.817
701_00005The AlchemistJonson, Ben1612comedy4840.813
724_00038The Knight of the Burning PestleBeaumont, Francis1613comedy5040.771
724_00037The Knight of the Burning PestleBeaumont, Francis1613comedy5000.749
751_00012The Four Prentices of LondonHeywood, Thomas1615romance4870.815
751_00009The Four Prentices of LondonHeywood, Thomas1615romance5020.814
753_00024The Scornful LadyBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1616comedy4940.874
704_00034Epicene, or The Silent WomanJonson, Ben1616comedy4820.872
753_00023The Scornful LadyBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1616comedy4880.853
753_00015The Scornful LadyBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1616comedy4950.842
753_00022The Scornful LadyBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1616comedy5080.808
753_00012The Scornful LadyBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1616comedy4950.808
704_00007Epicene, or The Silent WomanJonson, Ben1616comedy4770.783
808_00042A King and No KingBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1619tragicomedy4890.895
808_00025A King and No KingBeaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John1619tragicomedy4720.870
823_00011The World Tossed at TennisMiddleton, Thomas / Rowley, Willia1620masque4910.787
826_00032Thierry and TheodoretAnonymous / Fletcher, John / Massi1621tragedy5070.889
826_00034Thierry and TheodoretAnonymous / Fletcher, John / Massi1621tragedy5160.844
870_00035All's Well That Ends WellShakespeare, William / Middleton, 1623tragicomedy4750.779
287_00000Richard the ThirdShakespeare, William1623tragedy; history4670.651
907_00016Apollo ShrovingHawkins, William1627comedy4740.767
920_00026The WeddingShirley, James1629comedy4780.810
920_00009The WeddingShirley, James1629comedy4880.752
971_00049Bartholomew FairJonson, Ben1631comedy4910.812
971_00054Bartholomew FairJonson, Ben1631comedy4930.795
971_00052Bartholomew FairJonson, Ben1631comedy4880.776
979_00037Holland's LeaguerMarmion, Shackerley1632comedy5020.862
981_00033The Northern LassBrome, Richard1632comedy4880.856
981_00023The Northern LassBrome, Richard1632comedy5050.812
1004_00031A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy5110.900
1004_00036A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy4940.870
1004_00009A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy4940.867
1004_00023A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy5030.855
1004_00030A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy5010.843
1004_00034A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy5080.818
1004_00028A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy5020.814
1004_00005A Fine CompanionMarmion, Shackerley1633comedy4930.784
1049_00027The Royal King and the Loyal SubjectHeywood, Thomas1637romance4800.801
1054_00029The ExampleShirley, James1637comedy4860.693
1106_00021ImperialeFreeman, Ralph1639not in BritDrama5100.823
1118_00013The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4880.811
1105_00028The Unnatural CombatMassinger, Philip1639tragedy5030.801
1114_00033The Bloody Brother (Rollo, Duke of Normandy)Fletcher, John / Field, Nathan / M1639tragedy4850.797
1118_00012The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4930.785
1118_00014The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy5000.768
1120_00014The Phoenix in Her FlamesLower, William1639not in BritDrama5020.764
1118_00032The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4820.723
1118_00016The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4990.708
1118_00015The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4950.643
1118_00017The City MatchMayne, Jasper1639comedy4960.616
1152_00033Rule a Wife and Have a WifeFletcher, John1640comedy4730.858
1152_00016Rule a Wife and Have a WifeFletcher, John1640comedy5110.854
1152_00036Rule a Wife and Have a WifeFletcher, John1640comedy5160.844
1152_00001Rule a Wife and Have a WifeFletcher, John1640comedy4810.822
1148_00031The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4810.821
1148_00029The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4810.760
1148_00016The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4830.683
1148_00030The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4800.668
1148_00017The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4740.638
1148_00018The Hollander (Love's Trial)Glapthorne, Henry1640comedy4860.566
1139_00003The Gypsies MetamorphosedJonson, Ben1641masque5020.788

Chunks from other editions (22; placed after the fit, not in the statistics)

chunkplayauthorpublishedgenrewordstypicality
423_00021Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy4760.871
423_00020Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy5000.864
405_00044Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy5100.862
405_00038Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy4430.852
405_00008Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy4750.851
405_00041Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy4940.829
423_00024Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy5090.827
423_00022Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy4910.817
405_00021Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy5070.788
405_00009Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy5030.785
423_00030Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy5040.784
405_00048Every Man in His HumorJonson, Ben1616comedy4890.759
423_00025Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy4850.751
423_00055Poetaster, or The ArraignmentJonson, Ben1616comedy4700.725
705_00029Epicene, or The Silent WomanJonson, Ben1620comedy4950.883
224_000322 Henry the Sixth (The First Part of the Contention betAnonymous / Marlowe, Christopher /1623history5120.874
374_00041Henry the FifthShakespeare, William1623history4770.799
374_00040Henry the FifthShakespeare, William1623history4780.795
379_000192 Henry the FourthShakespeare, William1623history4830.789
379_000182 Henry the FourthShakespeare, William1623history4910.706
610_00046The Alexandraean TragedyAlexander, William1637tragedy4860.811
1115_00033The Bloody Brother (Rollo, Duke of Normandy)Fletcher, John / Field, Nathan / M1640tragedy5370.817