Topic 23 — Husbands, wives and jealousy

Dominant work: Cupid's Whirligig · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 62%; tragedy 22%; not in BritDrama 5%

91chunks

45,038words

52works

8works with ≥3 chunks

8 %dominant work

20 %top-3 works

All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 94 chunks · 52 works · 46,470 words — those 3 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): Husbands, wives and jealousy

Original AI draft — before researcher review

draft label: Husbands, wives and jealousy · pattern basis: thematic_discourse
91 chunks, 52 works, no work above 8 %. Jealous husbands, suspected wives, cuckoldry feared or arranged, 'honest' as the wife's word; Sharpham, Chapman, Dekker, Nabbes, Brome, also Soliman and Perseda. Cross-work theme.
chunks read for the draft: 581_00009;518_00022;590_00017;1082_00031;188_00013;813_00029;1140_00035

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

Keywords

Class-TF-IDF (uniform rule)

wifehusbandcuckoldjealousywomanjealousmistresslovehousehonest

KeyBERT-style (cosine of word to topic centroid)

jealouscuckoldjealousygentlewomanhusbandmistressgentlemenladywifewives

MMR (diversified)

jealousgentlewomanhusbandcuckoldhonesthonourpraymistresslookgentlemen

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

Most typical chunk of each of the leading works

Cupid's Whirligig typ. 0.91

Sharpham, Edward, 1607 · comedy · 7 chunks of this work here

O sir, What make you here, when there's a gallant Gentleman newly come from Court, talking within with my Lady. Yet more Courtiers, more Gallants, more Gentlemen? now in a hundred …

All Fools typ. 0.84

Chapman, George, 1605 · comedy · 6 chunks of this work here

I doubt, last day he saw her, and will know her to be Fortunio's wife. Nay, as for that I will pretend she was even then your sons wife, But feigned by me to be Fortunio's, Only to…

Northward Ho typ. 0.91

Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John, 1607 · comedy · 5 chunks of this work here

ay but will you do it faithfully? As I respect your acquaintance I shall do it. Tell me then I beseech you, do not you think this minx is some naughty pack whom my husband hath fal…

Tottenham Court typ. 0.89

Nabbes, Thomas, 1638 · comedy · 4 chunks of this work here

Why sweetheart; why husband; why Iohn; do you leave your Wife behind, to be taken up by everybody? Now the love of man's society defend me from this abuser of creation. Come not ne…

Rule a Wife and Have a Wife typ. 0.88

Fletcher, John, 1640 · comedy · 4 chunks of this work here

Pray ye be not angry, My indiscretion has made bold to tell ye, What you'll find true. Thou darest not talk. Not much madam, You have a tie upon your servants tongue, He dares not …

Every Man Out of His Humor typ. 0.84

Jonson, Ben, 1600 · comedy · 3 chunks of this work here

Your wife? now for shame lose these thoughts, and become the master of your own spirits. Should I (if I had a wife) suffer myself to be thus passionately carried (to and for) with …

Othello, the Moor of Venice typ. 0.83

Shakespeare, William, 1623 · tragedy · 3 chunks of this work here

Good my Lord pardon me, Though I am bound to every Act of duty, I am not bound to that: All Slaves are free: Utter my Thoughts? Why say, they are vild, and false? As where's that P…

The Hollander (Love's Trial) typ. 0.86

Glapthorne, Henry, 1640 · comedy · 3 chunks of this work here

She shall not scape me were she Fenced with fire, strumpet thou diest. Who's this, Sir Martin, what do you mean sir? ay, this is he Thomas do you see what a terrible thing he has g…

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

comedy

56 (62 %)

tragedy

20 (22 %)

not in BritDrama

5 (5 %)

tragicomedy

4 (4 %)

romance

2 (2 %)

satire; dialogue

2 (2 %)

biblical play; moral

1 (1 %)

moral

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

Cupid's Whirligig (7), All Fools (6), Northward Ho (5), Tottenham Court (4), Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (4), Every Man Out of His Humor (3), Othello, the Moor of Venice (3), The Hollander (Love's Trial) (3), 1 The Two Angry Women of Abingdon (2), Parasitaster, or The Fawn (2), The Dumb Knight (2), The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona) (2), The Insatiate Countess (2), Amends for Ladies (2), Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (2) …

Excerpts

Northward Ho (1607) · typ. 0.91
ay but will you do it faithfully? As I respect your acquaintance I shall do it. Tell me then I beseech you, do not you think this minx is some naughty pack whom my husband hath fallen in love with, and means to keep under my nose at his garden house. No upon my life is she not, O I cannot believe it, I know by her eyes she is not ho…

Cupid's Whirligig (1607) · typ. 0.91
…iers, more Gallants, more Gentlemen? now in a hundred thousand horned devils names, what makes a there? what is a gone to bed to your Lady? doth a Cuckold me in mine own house, in mine own chamber? nay in mine own Sheets? what he's come to visit her to, is a not, ha? But let me see, I have now found out a trick to know if my wife make me …

Cupid's Whirligig (1607) · typ. 0.91
…and he fast by the Garden wall, & asking for your jealous worship, they both replied you were not jealous, this spoke they both together: in this, you know they both did lie together, and yet made you no cuckold. Ha! mean'st so? even so indeed sir. Nay, than I cry ye mercy wife, i'faith she yet may chance be honest. O sir, very honest as …

The Gamester (1637) · typ. 0.91
… Ramble abroad in gentlemen's company Whole days, lie out a nights, but you suspect I am wanton, 'tis ill done, it becomes no modest Woman: that loves her husband, to be jealous, whate'er she see, or hears, mend, mend this fault, You do not know, how it may work upon me. Some wife will bid her husband's leverets welcome, Keep house togeth…

Tottenham Court (1638) · typ. 0.89
…honesty. I'll to Tottenham-court after my husband. If there be that necessity at any time that I must make my husband a Cuckold, I'll do it before his face: any Citizens Wife can do it behind her husband's back. Your will disposeth mine: we there may find Handsome conveniences; and I'll renew My counterfeit of woman-hater: it May cast a m…

Bussy D'Ambois (1607) · typ. 0.89
… ere you would lose me: Honour and husband? By this light my Lord You're a vile fellow: and I'll tell the King Your occupation of dishonouring Ladies And of his Court: a Lady cannot live As she was borne; and with that sort of pleasure That fits her state: but she must be defamed With an infamous Lords detraction: Who would endure the Cou…

Cupid's Whirligig (1607) · typ. 0.89
… tie his mare in my ground, but what a slave have I been still thus to suspect my wife, I could never feel any horns I had, and yet I know my skull is so thin that if my wife should a Cuckold me with the least thing in the world, yet my horns would a grown through now am I for my Lord. Now fair mistress, this far through the mouth of dang…

Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (1640) · typ. 0.88
… have a tie upon your servants tongue, He dares not be so bold as reason bids him, 'Twere fit there were a stronger on your temper, ne'er look so stern upon me I am your husband, But what are husbands, read the new world's wonders, Such husbands as this monstrous world produces, And you will scarce find such deformities, They are shadows …

The Fancies Chaste and Noble (1638) · typ. 0.88
I talk bawdily to thy wife? hang bawdry; good now mind thy business, lest thy hand slip. Give him kind words you were best, for a toy that I know. Confess, or I shall mar your grace in whiffin…

Northward Ho (1607) · typ. 0.88
… house, to have her board here. Right, she's some cracked demi-culverin, that hath miscarried in service: no matter though it be some charge to me for a time I care not. Lord was there ever such a husband? Why, wouldst thou have me suffer their tongues to run at large, in Ordinaries and Cockpits; though the Knaves do lie, I tell you Maste…

The Family of Love (1608) · typ. 0.88
… muscadine, before it bristled: a shame take thee and thy Loadstone: but 'tis no matter, Master Placket the Parritor has cited you, and you shall answer it. O the raging jealousy of a woman! do you hear wife I will show myself a man of sense, and answer you with silence, or like a man of wisdom, speak in brief: I say you are a scowl, and …

The Gamester (1637) · typ. 0.87
…th' World: I would not Wish to enjoy thee now, but in the hope Of other harvest, and to make thy husband Hereafter cuckold, that imagination Sweetness the rest, and I do love it mainly, mainly. 'tis double sin. 'tis treble pleasure wench; But we lose time, and may endanger thus My wife into a jealousy, if she see us, Farewell, farewell de…

All 91 chunks of the representative editions (chronological; click a header to sort)

chunk	play	author	published	genre	words	typicality
188_00013	Soliman and Perseda (Zulziman)	Anonymous	1592	tragedy	482	0.768
216_00022	A Looking Glass for London and England	Lodge, Thomas / Greene, Robert	1594	biblical play; moral	455	0.847
363_00003	1 The Two Angry Women of Abingdon	Porter, Henry	1599	comedy	460	0.855
363_00008	1 The Two Angry Women of Abingdon	Porter, Henry	1599	comedy	513	0.739
365_00049	Every Man Out of His Humor	Jonson, Ben	1600	comedy	516	0.845
365_00024	Every Man Out of His Humor	Jonson, Ben	1600	comedy	485	0.754
365_00025	Every Man Out of His Humor	Jonson, Ben	1600	comedy	492	0.731
407_00022	Jack Drum's Entertainment (Katherine and Pasquil)	Marston, John	1601	comedy	493	0.862
422_00008	Poetaster, or The Arraignment	Jonson, Ben	1602	comedy	508	0.807
430_00022	Blurt, Master Constable, or The Spaniard's Night Walk	Anonymous	1602	romance	485	0.742
518_00018	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	500	0.844
518_00014	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	524	0.804
518_00022	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	487	0.787
518_00028	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	508	0.777
518_00013	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	525	0.771
518_00030	All Fools	Chapman, George	1605	comedy	486	0.737
555_00032	The Isle of Gulls	Day, John	1606	comedy	486	0.871
542_00031	Parasitaster, or The Fawn	Marston, John	1606	comedy	489	0.814
542_00032	Parasitaster, or The Fawn	Marston, John	1606	comedy	501	0.733
590_00017	Northward Ho	Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John	1607	comedy	497	0.914
581_00002	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	465	0.911
581_00004	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	462	0.908
579_00012	Bussy D'Ambois	Chapman, George	1607	tragedy	515	0.889
581_00015	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	541	0.887
590_00014	Northward Ho	Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John	1607	comedy	494	0.878
590_00038	Northward Ho	Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John	1607	comedy	492	0.865
590_00036	Northward Ho	Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John	1607	comedy	478	0.826
581_00009	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	503	0.825
581_00016	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	531	0.802
581_00045	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	485	0.796
590_00037	Northward Ho	Dekker, Thomas / Webster, John	1607	comedy	465	0.777
573_00005	The Phoenix	Middleton, Thomas	1607	comedy	492	0.763
581_00043	Cupid's Whirligig	Sharpham, Edward	1607	comedy	483	0.700
595_00007	The Devil's Charter, or Pope Alexander the Sixth	Barnes, Barnabe	1607	tragedy	493	0.653
616_00029	The Family of Love	Barry, Lording	1608	comedy	479	0.876
640_00003	A Yorkshire Tragedy	Middleton, Thomas	1608	tragedy	503	0.870
653_00025	The Dumb Knight	Markham, Gervase / Machin, Lewis	1608	tragicomedy	482	0.865
629_00010	Law Tricks	Day, John	1608	comedy	484	0.773
653_00003	The Dumb Knight	Markham, Gervase / Machin, Lewis	1608	tragicomedy	485	0.707
708_00002	The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona)	Webster, John	1612	tragedy	472	0.844
698_00015	A Christian Turned Turk (The Two Famous Pirates)	Daborne, Robert	1612	tragedy	481	0.798
708_00003	The White Devil (Vittoria Corombona)	Webster, John	1612	tragedy	515	0.734
721_00039	The Insatiate Countess	Marston, John / Machin, Lewis / Ba	1613	tragedy	500	0.800
710_00023	The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois	Chapman, George	1613	tragedy	515	0.792
721_00012	The Insatiate Countess	Marston, John / Machin, Lewis / Ba	1613	tragedy	523	0.765
753_00037	The Scornful Lady	Beaumont, Francis / Fletcher, John	1616	comedy	520	0.821
606_00021	Volpone, or The Fox	Jonson, Ben	1616	comedy	501	0.806
765_00000	The Honest Lawyer	S., S.	1616	comedy	517	0.734
798_00012	Amends for Ladies	Field, Nathan	1618	comedy	497	0.858
798_00030	Amends for Ladies	Field, Nathan	1618	comedy	505	0.800
813_00056	Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools	Anonymous	1619	satire; dialogue	512	0.815
813_00029	Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools	Anonymous	1619	satire; dialogue	492	0.808
839_00025	Othello, the Moor of Venice	Shakespeare, William	1623	tragedy	475	0.835
874_00005	The Winter's Tale	Shakespeare, William	1623	romance	504	0.804
427_00016	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Shakespeare, William	1623	comedy	460	0.793
870_00005	All's Well That Ends Well	Shakespeare, William / Middleton,	1623	tragicomedy	481	0.791
839_00033	Othello, the Moor of Venice	Shakespeare, William	1623	tragedy	481	0.786
858_00008	The Duchess of Malfi	Webster, John	1623	tragedy	498	0.743
839_00038	Othello, the Moor of Venice	Shakespeare, William	1623	tragedy	488	0.712
896_00011	The Bondman (The Noble Bondman)	Massinger, Philip	1624	tragicomedy	501	0.844
926_00014	The Cruel Brother	Davenant, William	1630	tragedy	490	0.826
947_00009	2 The Honest Whore (2 The Converted Courtesan)	Dekker, Thomas	1630	comedy	482	0.785
982_00024	The Fatal Dowry	Field, Nathan / Massinger, Philip	1632	tragedy	513	0.843
1001_00017	Love's Sacrifice	Ford, John	1633	tragedy	511	0.824
999_00036	A Match at Midnight	R., W.	1633	comedy	507	0.823
1001_00024	Love's Sacrifice	Ford, John	1633	tragedy	492	0.803
1056_00001	The Gamester	Shirley, James	1637	comedy	494	0.906
1056_00016	The Gamester	Shirley, James	1637	comedy	499	0.875
1051_00023	The Lady of Pleasure	Shirley, James	1637	comedy	503	0.854
1077_00009	Tottenham Court	Nabbes, Thomas	1638	comedy	506	0.895
1067_00033	The Fancies Chaste and Noble	Ford, John	1638	comedy	489	0.882
1087_00007	The Muses' Looking Glass	Randolph, Thomas	1638	moral	518	0.843
1082_00031	Covent Garden	Nabbes, Thomas	1638	comedy	488	0.827
1077_00015	Tottenham Court	Nabbes, Thomas	1638	comedy	494	0.820
1077_00029	Tottenham Court	Nabbes, Thomas	1638	comedy	510	0.814
1077_00017	Tottenham Court	Nabbes, Thomas	1638	comedy	495	0.785
1067_00024	The Fancies Chaste and Noble	Ford, John	1638	comedy	455	0.761
1070_00004	The Lost Lady	Berkeley, William	1638	not in BritDrama	499	0.698
1101_00028	The Lady's Trial	Ford, John	1639	not in BritDrama	497	0.825
1152_00014	Rule a Wife and Have a Wife	Fletcher, John	1640	comedy	498	0.883
1152_00019	Rule a Wife and Have a Wife	Fletcher, John	1640	comedy	493	0.863
1148_00039	The Hollander (Love's Trial)	Glapthorne, Henry	1640	comedy	506	0.859
1152_00032	Rule a Wife and Have a Wife	Fletcher, John	1640	comedy	505	0.854
1148_00024	The Hollander (Love's Trial)	Glapthorne, Henry	1640	comedy	500	0.848
1140_00039	The Antipodes	Brome, Richard	1640	not in BritDrama	510	0.832
1126_00020	Love's Cruelty	Shirley, James	1640	tragedy	479	0.828
1148_00025	The Hollander (Love's Trial)	Glapthorne, Henry	1640	comedy	478	0.822
1152_00020	Rule a Wife and Have a Wife	Fletcher, John	1640	comedy	500	0.820
1129_00004	The Bride	Nabbes, Thomas	1640	not in BritDrama	480	0.809
1140_00035	The Antipodes	Brome, Richard	1640	not in BritDrama	488	0.771
1126_00026	Love's Cruelty	Shirley, James	1640	tragedy	497	0.755

Chunks from other editions (3; placed after the fit, not in the statistics)

chunk	play	author	published	genre	words	typicality
425_00008	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Shakespeare, William	1602	comedy	492	0.822
838_00025	Othello, the Moor of Venice	Shakespeare, William	1622	tragedy	477	0.834
428_00016	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Shakespeare, William	1630	comedy	463	0.790

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