Dominant work: Look About You · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): comedy 66%; history 15%; tragedy 15%
62chunks
30,668words
8works
4works with ≥3 chunks
66 %dominant work
84 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 69 chunks · 10 works · 34,101 words — those 7 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.
Classificationcontext only — excluded from the genre comparison · confirmed by the researcher Label (researcher): Disguise and pursuit in Look About You Notes (researcher): sample review supports a Look About You disguise/pursuit core, while sampled peripheral scenes concern reconciliation oaths and murder. Retain for contextual display; this decision rests on uncertain cross-work coherence, not concentration alone. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 397_00024; 287_00017; 951_00013.Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Disguise plot around Gloster, Skink and Prince John (Look About You) · pattern basis: shared_narrative+recurring_role_or_name 62 chunks, 8 works, Look About You 66 %, top three 84 %. One play's plot (Gloster, Faukenbridge, Skink, the hermit); the few outside chunks are other Glosters (King Lear, Henry VI). Single-work cluster. chunks read for the draft: 397_00007;623_00028;878_00017;222_00014;951_00013;319_00013;287_00017
Anonymous, 1600 · comedy · 41 chunks of this work here
O my Lord the house is full of halberts, and a great many Gentlemen ask for the room where Prince Iohn is? Lend me thy Apron, run and fetch a pot from the next room. Betrayed, 'swo…
Shakespeare, William, 1608 · tragedy · 7 chunks of this work here
In wisdom I sholud ask thy name, But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike, And that thy being some say of breeding breaths, By right of knighthood, I disdain and spurn Hear …
Anonymous / Marlowe, Christopher / Shakespea, 1623 · history · 4 chunks of this work here
Comest thou with deep premeditated Lines? With written Pamphlets, studiously devised? Humphrey of Gloster, if thou canst accuse, Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge, Do it wit…
Heywood, Thomas, 1600 · history · 3 chunks of this work here
It seems you do not fear to harbour her. I harbour her? out on her strumpet quean, She priest upon me where I would or no: I'll see her hanged ere I will harbour her. So now her je…
Anonymous / Marlowe, Christopher / Shakespea, 1600 · history · 2 chunks of this work here
Well hath your grace foreseen into that Duke, And if I had been licensed first to speak, I think I should have told your grace's tale, Smooth runs the brook whereas the stream is d…
Anonymous, 1598 · romance · 2 chunks of this work here
Faith i'll home to dinner, and afterward to sleep. Why then thou wilt be hanged. Faith I care not, for I know I shall never find them well i'll once more abroad, & if I cannot find…
Chettle, Henry, 1631 · tragedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Nay, nay you must not go, we'll hold you now. Why that's well, done, Pray come, see my house I have a fine house now, and goodly knacks And gay apparel; look ye here, this is brave…
Shakespeare, William, 1623 · tragedy; history · 1 chunks of this work here
There Hastings, I will never more remember Our former hatred, so thrive I, and mine. Dorset, embrace him: Hastings, love Lord marquis. This interchange of love, I here protest Upon…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
comedy
41 (66 %)
history
9 (15 %)
tragedy
9 (15 %)
romance
2 (3 %)
tragedy; history
1 (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.
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.89 …ukenbridge, Skinke 'scapes you all by twy lights privyledge. Where is he? lights, bring lights, drag out that boy. This is my cloak, my hat, my rapier, And either it was Skinke or Gloster. I know not who 'twas sir, he said he was Prince Iohn, he took away my apron and a pottle pot with him, and all to bloodied his head and face. We met hi…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.88 …is yonder alone, Skinke now revenge thyself on yonder slave. Znayles still prevented? this same Redcap rogue Runs like hobgoblin up and down the heath. Wh wh wh whope He Hermit, ye ha' ha ma ma made Re Redcap run a fine co co compass, ha have you not? I made thee run? yonder's my evil Angel, were redcap gone, Gloster would conjure him. je…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.88 …s stammering, is this he? I jam am Re Redcap s s sir. Run Redcap to Stepney. I'll be at Stepney p p presently. Nay stay, go to the Lady Faukenbridge my sister. The La La Lady Fau Fau Faukenbreech, I r r run sir. But take thy errand, tell her I am prisoner, Committed to the Fleet. I am g g glad of th' th' that, my fa fa father the p p port…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.88 …d his Orisons, As often cursed the glorious host of heaven, As many time's invocke the fiends of hell, And so turned witch, for Gloster is a witch. Have patiented Gentle Prince, he shall appear, Before your Kingly father speedily. Shall he indeed? sweet comfort kiss thy cheek, Peace circle in thy aged honoured head, When he is taken: Herm…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.86 …ll he come; he's in a russet cloak And must attend me like a Servingman. Hold there's my sword, and with my sword my heart, Bring him for Godsake, and for thy desert, My brother King and mother Queen shall love thee. Mark me good Prince, yonder away we come, I go afore and Gloster follows me; Let not the Sheriff nor Richard meddle with us…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.86 …e a gods name, Prince Iohn stays for us. This is the word, ever at spendthriftes feasts, They are gulled themselves, and scoffed at by their guests. Buffild and scoffed, Skinke, Gloster, women, fools, and boys abuse me? I'll be revenged, Revenged, and why good child? Old Faukenbridge hath had a worse basting. I, they have banded from chas…
King Lear (1608) · typ. 0.86 In wisdom I sholud ask thy name, But since thy outside looks so fair and warlike, And that thy being some say of breeding breaths, By right of knighthood, I disdain and spurn Hear do I toss those treasons to thy head. With the hell ha…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.85 …s Mall it is a pretty child; Shall we go meet Iohn? shall we go mock the Prince? We will. O than we shall have sport anon, Never wear yellow Mall, 'twas but a trick, Old Faukenbridge will still be a mad Dick. Do ye s s say fa fa father Hermit, th' that Gl Gloster is about this Heath? He is upon this Heath Son look about it, Run but the co…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.85 … proud Leyster bold to strike his face, To his eternal shame, and our disgrace. Silence, I see thou leanst to find none fit. I am sure, nor Lancaster nor Huntingdon, Nor Faukenbridge, will lay a hand on him. Mother, wife, brother, let's descend the Throne Where Henry is the Monarch of the West, Hath set amongst his Princes dignified. Fath…
King Lear (1608) · typ. 0.85 …ere you are going To a most festuant preparation we are bound to the like, Our post shall be swift and intelligence betwixt us, Farewell dear sister, farewell my Lord of Gloster, How now where's the King? My Lord of Gloster hath conveyed him hence, Some five or six and thirty of his Knights hot questrits after him, met him at gate, who wi…
2 Henry the Sixth (The First Part of the Contentio (1600) · typ. 0.85 …such time as thou canst clear thyself. Good uncle obey to his arrest, I have no doubt but thou shalt clear thyself, My conscience tells me thou are innocent. Ah gracious Henry these days are dangerous, And would my death might end these miseries, And stay their moods for good King Henry's sake, But I am made the Prologue to their play, An…
Look About You (1600) · typ. 0.85 …d when I conceit what you have done, I am a shamed to be esteemed your son. Base Richard I disdain to call thee brother, Takest thou a traitors part in our disgrace? For Gloster, wilt thou wrong our sacred mother? I scorn thee and defy thee to thy face. O that we were in field, then shouldst thou try, How fast Earl Iohn would from Prince …
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