Dominant work: Cambises, King of Persia · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): tragedy 35%; history 29%; tragedy; history 10%
52chunks
25,643words
36works
4works with ≥3 chunks
6 %dominant work
17 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 56 chunks · 36 works · 27,673 words — those 4 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): Death, parting and grief at court Notes (researcher): sample review supports courtly loss, parting and mourning. Revise the label: the samples include farewell to favourites, allegorical seasonal death and reported royal bereavement, not only literal deaths of rulers. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 245_00029; 396_00032; 874_00045.Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Royal deaths and the news of them · pattern basis: thematic_discourse 52 chunks, 36 works, no work above 6 %. Kings and queens facing or hearing of death: the murder of Edward II, Richard II deposed, Gorboduc's sons, Cambises' cruelty, Margaret's curses; the royal register of T1. Cross-work theme. chunks read for the draft: 96_00012;245_00038;273_00029;68_00020;203_00041;446_00029;287_00009
Preston, Thomas, 1570 · tragedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Farewell you Ladies of the Court, with all your masking hue: I do forsake these broidered guards, and all the fashions new. The Court and all the courtly train, wherein I had delig…
Marlowe, Christopher, 1594 · history · 3 chunks of this work here
Look up my lord. Baldock, this drowsiness Betides no good, here even we are betrayed. Upon my life, those be the men ye see Fellow enough, my lord I pray be short, A fair commissio…
Shakespeare, William, 1597 · tragedy; history · 3 chunks of this work here
My lord of Salisbury, we have stayed ten days. And hardly kept our countrymen together, And yet we hear no tidings from the King, Therefore we will disperse ourselves, farewell. St…
Markham, Gervase / Sampson, William, 1622 · tragedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Sir, I know Your wisdom such, as can discern what 'tis At once to fear, to suffer, and to die, By th'hand of stern ambition; which, i'th' end, Makes still her habitation like the p…
Peele, George, 1593 · history · 2 chunks of this work here
Hast from my sight, call Joan of Acon here, The lukewarm spring distilling from his eyes, His oaths, his vows, his reasons rested with remorse, From forth his breast empoisoned wit…
Anonymous / Marlowe, Christopher / Shakespea, 1623 · history · 2 chunks of this work here
Nay take me with thee, good sweet Exeter: Not that I fear to stay, but love to go Whether the Queen intends. Forward, away. here burns my Candle out; I, here it dies, Which whiles …
Shakespeare, William, 1623 · tragedy; history · 2 chunks of this work here
A little joy enjoys the Queen thereof, For I am she, and altogether joyless: I can no longer hold me patiented. Hear me, you wrangling Pirates, that fall out, In sharing that which…
Alexander, William, 1604 · tragedy · 2 chunks of this work here
Heaven bruise me all to powder with thy thunder, That I no more may in the world remain The object of thy wrath, and Fortune's wonder; Spoiled of all hope; yet kept for greater pai…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
tragedy
18 (35 %)
history
15 (29 %)
tragedy; history
5 (10 %)
romance
5 (10 %)
tragicomedy
3 (6 %)
not in BritDrama
2 (4 %)
entertainment; royal entertainment or entry
1 (2 %)
comedy
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.
Edward the Second (1594) · typ. 0.92 …he name of Isabell the Queen: My lord, why droop you thus? O day! the last of all my bliss on earth; Centre of all misfortune. O my stars! Why do you lower unkindly on a king? Comes Leister then in Isabella's name, To take my life, my company from me? Here man, rip up this panting breast of mine, And take my heart, in rescue of my friends…
Albovine, King of the Lombards (1629) · typ. 0.91 …er lay On hills, where the good Patriarchs never trod. Vain Arts! Ambition in all sacred Schools, Is held the sin of Heathens, and of Fools. O dire and tragic sight! The King, the Queen And fair Valdaura slain! here's another object fit for wonder, Though not for pity. Hah! he dead too? Whence should these sorrows flow? Lay hold on Paradi…
Nobody and Somebody (1606) · typ. 0.90 …sently, For though the Princely Peridure be king, His brother's death in time will make him odious Unto his subjects, and they may restore Mild Elidure again, and then I die, Withdraw, she's dead, as surely as you live. What shall I never from this servitude Receive releasant evermore be plagued, With this insulting Queen? Is there no cha…
Herod and Antipater (1622) · typ. 0.90 … believe't; the Majesty which strikes Against contempt shall ne'er recover it. Yet again. Sir, I can vanish quickly; yet, behold, here's one can save my labour. Speak my Lord; where is my Queen? O, where's my Marriam? Sir, she is dead. Dead? Be the world dead with her; for on earth There's no life but her glory: yet declare How died the w…
The Winter's Tale (1623) · typ. 0.89 My Lord the King: the King? What is the business? O Sir, I shall be hated to report it. The Prince your Son, with mere conceit, and fear Of the Queen's speed, is gone. How? gone? Is dead. Apollo's angry, and the Heavens themselves Do strike at my Injustice. How now there? This news is mortal to the Queen: Look do…
Richard the Second (1597) · typ. 0.88 …ous lives, For ttwere no charity; yet to wash your blood From off my hands, here in the view of men I will unfold some causes of your deaths: You have misled a Prince, a royal King, A happy Gentleman in blood and lineaments, By you vnhappied, and disfigured clean, You have in manner with your sinful hours Made a divorce betwixt his Queen …
Darius (1604) · typ. 0.88 …trod on the ground. O lasting shame that cannot be recured. We straight imagined that some cruel wound Had killed my Lord, and wailed it as assured. Would God I then had died, as I desired, So t'have prevented those ensuing harms; Before my honour and my hap expired, With Crown on head, & with my Queen in arms.
Tancred and Gismund (Gismond of Salerne) (1591) · typ. 0.88 …strong mischiefs princes should avoid In headlong griefs and cases desperate? Call to your mind (Gis.) you are the Queen. Unhappy widow, wife, and paramour. Think on the king. The king? the tyrant king Your father. Yea, the murderer of my love His force. the dead fear not the force of men His care & grief. That neither cared for me Nor gr…
The Broken Heart (1633) · typ. 0.87 … active like our heart Which treads the nimbler measure. I am thunderstruck. So, let us breathe a while: hath not this motion Raised fresher colour on your cheeks? Sweet Princess. A perfect purity of blood enamels The beauty of your white. We all look cheerfully: And cousin, 'tis, methinks, a rare presumption In any, who prefers our lawfu…
Cambises, King of Persia (1570) · typ. 0.87 …nce, my blood is m●nished. Gog's heart what means might I make, my life to preserve? Is there naught to be my help: nor is their naught to serve? Out upon the Court, and Lords that there remain: To help my grief in this my case, will none of them take pain? Who but I in such a wise his death's wound could have got: As I on horse back up d…
Cambises, King of Persia (1570) · typ. 0.87 …o be in her you prove. A precious pearl of prize to Prince, a jewel passing all: Therefore (O king to beg remorse on both my knees I fall. To grant her grace to have her life, with heart I do desire: You villains twain, with raging force, ye set my heart on fire. If I consent that she shall die, how dare ye crave her life? You two to ask …
Edward the Second (1594) · typ. 0.87 …shall it be, To wretched men death is felicity. another post, what news brings he? Such news as I expect, come Bartley, come, And tell thy message to my naked breast. My lord, think not a thought so villainous Can harbour in a man of noble birth. To do your highness service and devoir, And save you from your foes, Bartley would die. My lo…
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