Dominant work: Apollo Shroving · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 56%; pastoral; romance 14%; tragedy 10%
84chunks
41,688words
31works
5works with ≥3 chunks
34 %dominant work
54 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 89 chunks · 31 works · 44,105 words — those 5 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.
Classificationcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · confirmed by the researcher Label (researcher): Apollo, Phoebus and the Muses Notes (researcher): sample review supports Apollo/Phoebus across worship, learning, desire and cosmic disorder. The full Thyestes sample explicitly addresses Phoebus. Include as a mythological domain; do not treat Apollo Shroving's concentration as automatic exclusion. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 907_00003; 135_00006; 50_00016. Full-chunk follow-up: 50_00016.Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Apollo, the Muses and Midas · pattern basis: recurring_role_or_name+thematic_discourse 84 chunks, 31 works, Apollo Shroving 35 %, top three 54 %. Apollo/Phoebus as sun-god and patron of the Muses, Midas' ears, sirens: Lyly (Midas, Sappho and Phao), Maid's Metamorphosis, Heywood, Seneca's sunrise choruses share the subject with the school play Apollo Shroving. The one-play share is a flag to check (does a genre result change without it?), not a reason to exclude; read the non-Shroving chunks and decide. chunks read for the draft: 907_00001;181_00027;370_00027;50_00016;135_00006;794_00020;719_00027
Hawkins, William, 1627 · comedy · 29 chunks of this work here
NO Court of King, no Palace stately rich, Though proud of marble feet & guilded head Can outbid these for true and sweet content. Let others grovel and embrace the earth, (The eart…
Lyly, John, 1592 · comedy · 8 chunks of this work here
Nothing, but that Apollo must determine all, or Midas see ruin of all. To Apollo will I offer an ivory lute for his sweet harmony, and berries of bay as black as jet, for his love …
Anonymous, 1600 · pastoral; romance · 8 chunks of this work here
Great God, the grievous travels I have passed, In restless search, to find her out at last: My plaints my toils, in lieu of my annoy, Have well deserved my Lady to enjoy. Penance t…
Shirley, James, 1640 · pastoral; romance · 4 chunks of this work here
What's that; an Owl, good Mistress Margerie I am busy Art thou poor and wouldst thou be advanced by wealth to Dignity do not think it then unmeet to stoop with hands beneath thy fe…
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus / Studley, John, 1581 · tragedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Now strengthen we our hand, Alas shall not my feeble age thy desperate death withstand, Forbear the sway of fury fierce. No reason can restrain Him that desireth death, when death …
Anonymous, 1592 · entertainment; royal entertainment or entry · 2 chunks of this work here
Nescis temeraria; nescis, Quem fugias; idioque fugis. A short tale, but a sorrowful, a just complaint, but remedelesse, I loved, (for shephardes haue their Saints) long I loved (fo…
Heywood, Thomas, 1613 · classical legend or myth · 2 chunks of this work here
'Twas marvel you did not break your neck. Had I not been derived from Godlike seed, Trust me Pyragmon I had done't indeed. But to the Forge, for I Apollo spy, He that sees all thin…
Holyday, Barten, 1618 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Alas, that's the least wonder, for at what time Pythagoras flourished, that was a familiar thing with his Scholars: and I may confirm it by a persuasive induction drawn from your P…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
comedy
47 (56 %)
pastoral; romance
12 (14 %)
tragedy
8 (10 %)
masque
5 (6 %)
pastoral
4 (5 %)
classical legend or myth
3 (4 %)
entertainment; royal entertainment or entry
2 (2 %)
moral
2 (2 %)
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.
Apollo Shroving (1627) · typ. 0.88 …m quick To feed that never-ceasing sacred fire. My part must be in that devotion, To take from thence a blessing for the day. Our actions hence have their prosperity, By timely worshipping the deity. WHat is he gone? I so. He keeps out wonted time, and now is well employed in doing sacred homage to Apollo. There lays he the foundation of …
The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600) · typ. 0.88 …id them forthwith provide, From that dark place, to be the ladies' guide. And in the bounty of their liberal mind, To give her clothes according to her kind. I go divine Apollo. Haste again. No time too swift, to ease a lovers pain. Most sacred Phoebus, endless thanks to thee, That dost vouchsafe so much to pity me. And aged father, for y…
Apollo and Daphne (1637) · typ. 0.87 …f fools, Who'ascribe to thee a godhead, merely usurped? But thou must wear my due Impresa insculpt, And ('bout thy shoulders) those known ornaments, Apollinis insignia? (Apollo's Ensigns) And why thy? Because I an styled the god of Archery; And where I aim I hit, my prey or enemy, Kill near or far. The monstrous serpent Python (Whose bulk…
The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600) · typ. 0.87 …oving, wish to be a maid again. Apollo, whether I love a man or not, I thank ye, now I will accept my lot: And sith my change hath disappointed you, Ye are at liberty to love anew. If ever I love, sith now I am forsaken, Where next I love, it shall be better taken: But whatsoe'er my fate in loving be, Yet thou mayst vaunt, that Phoebus lo…
The Arcadia (1640) · typ. 0.86 …whooe As sure as this is my own nose, I am stinkingly abused Ha ha ha, Can Madge Howlets laugh, that laugh was like my Daughter Mopsa There's one time, again again sweet Apollo 'Tis her voice what makes she there, now the dread vengeance of my dear fatherly curse, light overthwart thee thou awkward hilding Mopsa There's two times, Mopsa o…
Apollo Shroving (1627) · typ. 0.85 …Drudo, why do you discourage me from hope of admittance? The truth is, I see no great reason why you should be admitted. I'm sure for these seven years, every visitation day you have been shut out of doors by Musaeus as soon as ever he espied you lying upon the bench in Apollo's Court. And for the most part, when your name hath been calle…
If It Be Not Good, the Devil Is in It (If This Be (1612) · typ. 0.85 No Sir Ioues brain, (Minerva queen of wit) If all the Muses and the Arts can fit With their high Tunes, such choice and Princely ears, Apollo (Father to them all)— appears— Apollo was an Ass; he let a wench whom he loved to …
Midas (1592) · typ. 0.85 Nothing, but that Apollo must determine all, or Midas see ruin of all. To Apollo will I offer an ivory lute for his sweet harmony, and berries of bay as black as jet, for his love Daphne, …
The Masque of Augurs (1641) · typ. 0.84 …, and see; Behold, who comes! (b) far-shooting Phoebus he That can both hurt and (c) heal; and with his (d) voice Rear Towns, and make societies rejoice; That taught the Muses all their harmony, And men the tuneful Art of Augury. Apollo stoops, and when a God descends, May Mortals think he hath no vulgar ends. LInus, and (g) Orpheus, (h) …
Apollo Shroving (1627) · typ. 0.84 Then displaying my naked protesting hands, I said. O thou lovely Lord of learning, beauteous, bounteous Apollo. O thou ever moving Phoebus, Whose golden locks and silver bow, Embellish heaven and earth below. O ye assistant sist…
Midas (1592) · typ. 0.84 …o, Midas is restored. Fortunate Midas, that feelst thy head lightened of dull ears, and thy heart of deadly sorrows. Come my Lords, let us repair to our Palace, in which Apollo shall have a stately statue erected: every month will we solemnize there a feast, and here every year a sacrifice. Phrygia shallbe governed by Gods, not men, least…
Midas (1592) · typ. 0.84 What hast thou done Apollo? the ears of an Ass upon the head of a King? And well worthy, when the dullness of an ass is in the ears of a King. Help Pan, or Midas perisheth. I cannot undo wha…
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