Topic 53 — The crown: kingship claimed, resigned and seized
Dominant work: Nobody and Somebody · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): tragedy 26%; history 21%; history; satire 12%
42chunks
20,892words
27works
4works with ≥3 chunks
12 %dominant work
29 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 43 chunks · 28 works · 21,404 words — those 1 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.
Classificationreviewed — decision pending · left pending by the researcher Label (researcher): The crown: kingship claimed, resigned and seized Notes (researcher): sample review supports a royal-power core, but full checks of The Dumb Knight and Love's Labour's Lost mainly show courtship, lost favour and love verse. Keep the crown-transfer hypothesis pending; do not claim universal succession content. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 1153_00028; 653_00012; 315_00018. Full-chunk follow-up: 653_00012; 315_00018.Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: The crown: kingship claimed, resigned and seized · pattern basis: thematic_discourse 42 chunks, 27 works, Nobody and Somebody 12 %. The crown as object: Edward II resigning it, Elidure refusing it, Tarquin and the protector, 'no murder in a king'; state, reign, sovereign. Cross-work theme; close to T38 (royal deaths) and T43. chunks read for the draft: 540_00010;562_00008;245_00031;216_00020;1117_00001;242_00005;314_00029
Anonymous, 1606 · history; satire · 5 chunks of this work here
What seek ye Lords? What mean these loud Alarms, in the still silence of this hunnied night? King we seek thee. And more we seek thy Crown. Why Princely brothers is it not our own,…
Tomkis, Thomas, 1607 · comedy; allegory · 4 chunks of this work here
First I beheld him hovering in the air, And then down stooping, with a hundred gires: His feet he fixed on Mount Ch●phal●n, From whence he flew and lighted on that plain, And with …
Marlowe, Christopher, 1594 · history · 3 chunks of this work here
Spencer, I see our souls are fleeted hence, We are deprived the sunshine of our life, Make for a new life man, throw up thy eyes, And heart and hand to heavens immortal throne, Pay…
Shakespeare, William, 1600 · history · 3 chunks of this work here
O pardon me, my liege, but for my tears, The moist impediments unto my speech, I had forestald this dear and deep rebuke, Ere you with grief had spoke, and I had heard The course o…
Anonymous / Marlowe, Christopher / Shakespea, 1623 · history · 2 chunks of this work here
And deck my Body in gay Ornaments, And ' witch sweet Ladies with my Words and Looks. Oh miserable Thought! and more unlikely, Than to accomplish twenty Golden Crowns. Why Love fors…
Greene, Robert, 1598 · romance · 2 chunks of this work here
Why Prince it is no murder in a King, To end another's life to save his own, For you are not as common people be. Who die and perish with a few man's tears, But if you fail, the st…
Heywood, Thomas, 1608 · tragedy · 2 chunks of this work here
We are one heart, our thoughts & our desires are suitable. Since he was King he bears him like a God, His wife like Pallas or the wife of Jove, Will not be parleyed without sacrifi…
Shakespeare, William / Wilkins, George, 1609 · romance · 2 chunks of this work here
Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks, Muse into my mind, with thousand doubts How I might stop this tempest ere it came, And finding little comfort to relieve them, I …
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
tragedy
11 (26 %)
history
9 (21 %)
history; satire
5 (12 %)
romance
4 (10 %)
comedy; allegory
4 (10 %)
comedy
3 (7 %)
tragicomedy
2 (5 %)
moral
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.
Sicily and Naples, or The Fatal Union (1640) · typ. 0.91 … pity, and more dangerous: Valenzo Is popular, and who knows, but he had rather, Owe his life to the people's mutiny, than your pardon, And therefore slighted it. Oh the state of Princes! How far are we from that security, we dreamt of in th'expectance of our crown? Were foreign dangers nothing, yet we nourish Our ruin in our bosom: Valen…
2 Henry the Fourth (1600) · typ. 0.90 …rs, The moist impediments unto my speech, I had forestald this dear and deep rebuke, Ere you with grief had spoke, and I had heard The course of it so far: there is your crown: And he that wears the crown immortally, Long guard it yours: if I affect it more, Then as your honour, and as your renown, Let me no more from this obedience rise,…
Nobody and Somebody (1606) · typ. 0.90 …t our own, That 'tis ours we plead the law of kings, The gift of heaven, and the antiquity on earth, Election from them both. We plead our powers & strength, we two must reign. We were borne to rule, and homage we disdain. Do not resign, good King. How saucy Lord? I'll keep still thy Crown. I say that word shall cost old Cornwall's life. …
2 Henry the Fourth (1600) · typ. 0.89 … with forgotten dust. Give that which gave thee life, unto the worms, Pluck down my officers, break my decrees, For now a time is come to mock at Form: Harry the fift is crowned, up vanity, Down royal state, all you sage counsellors, hence, And to the English Court assemble now From every region, apes of idleness: Now neighbour confines, …
A Looking Glass for London and England (1594) · typ. 0.89 …delight? What tortuous planets, or malevolent Conspiring power, repining destiny Hath made the concave of the earth unclose, And shut in ruptures lovely Radagon? If I be Lord-commander of the clouds, King of the earth, and Sovereign of the seas, What daring Saturn from his fiery den, Doth dart these furious flames amidst my Court? I am no…
Nobody and Somebody (1606) · typ. 0.88 …ay his leisure to amend. Men, heaven, gods, devils, what power should I invoke, To fashion him a new: thunder come down, Crown me with ruin, since not with a Crown. Long life unto the Kingly Elidure, Trumpets proclaim it whether he will or no. For that conceit Lords, you have won my heart, In his despite let him be straight ways Crowned, …
A King and No King (1619) · typ. 0.88 The King extremely, shall we slink away; he'll strike us: Content. There I would make you know 'twas this sole arm, I grant you were my Instruments, and did As I commanded yo…
Albovine, King of the Lombards (1629) · typ. 0.87 …ance sure is physic for his soul. Paradine and 's young Bride! Your excellence Shall please that we retire: whilst I disguise My kind gesture, and seem to flatter in The king's behalf— To bed soft modesty! I will myself Deliver to the Queen the King's intent. Sir, the King is cruel. Should you prove so To me, I'd soon distil my soul to te…
Edward the Second (1594) · typ. 0.87 …bleeds within me for this strange exchange. But tell me, must I now resign my crown, To make usurping Mortimer a king? Your grace mistakes, it is for England's good, And princely Edward's right we crave the crown. No, 'tis for Mortimer, not Edward's head, For he's a lamb, encompassed by Wolves, Which in a moment will abridge his life: But…
Edward the Second (1594) · typ. 0.86 …mbitious Mortimer my right, That like a mountain overwhelms my bliss. In which extreme my mind here murdered is: But what the heavens appoint, I must obey, Here, take my crown, the life of Edward too, Two kings in England cannot reign at once: But stay a while, let me be king till night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown, So shal…
2 Henry the Fourth (1600) · typ. 0.86 No, no, my lord, note this, the King is weary Of dainty and such picking grievances, For he hath found, to end one doubt by death, Revives two greater in the heirs of life: And ther…
Darius (1604) · typ. 0.85 …t makes me sorry: Our name stained with this odious style of treason Shall leave our successors more shame, than glory. We first must end all our designs with pain, Then reign with fear, and live securely never; As in a dream a space with pomp remain, Then die disgraced, infamy for ever. The sacred title of a Sovereign King Doth strike a …
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