Topic 55 — Fairies, fairy queens and enchanted desire
Dominant work: The Whore of Babylon · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): history; allegory 43%; pastoral 23%; comedy 20%
35chunks
17,258words
9works
3works with ≥3 chunks
43 %dominant work
77 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 41 chunks · 10 works · 20,258 words — those 6 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): Fairies, fairy queens and enchanted desire Notes (researcher): sample review supports fairy figures, fantasy and desire. Full checks identify Oberon/Mab impersonation in The Jealous Lovers and Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet. Include as a shared subject domain, not one uniform narrative. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 740_00011; 987_00025; 294_00008. Full-chunk follow-up: 987_00025; 294_00008Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: The Fairy Queen and her fairies · pattern basis: shared_narrative+recurring_role_or_name 35 chunks, 9 works, Whore of Babylon 43 %, top three 77 %. The Fairy Queen (Titania as Elizabeth), Oberon, Mab and the fairies in Dekker's allegory, Randolph's Amyntas, A Midsummer Night's Dream and two royal entertainments; keywords are names. Group decision (single-story clusters T7, T20, T34, T54, T55, T59): decide once whether a shared story counts as a subject for genre comparison, as subject areas already do (T2 Rome, T10/T18 English chronicle matter, T12 the gods); if yes → candidate with the concentration noted, if no → contextual_only. chunks read for the draft: 569_00003;1091_00039;385_00024;128_00012;987_00025;740_00012;149_00007
Dekker, Thomas, 1607 · history; allegory · 15 chunks of this work here
Thus— let's consult— nay you shall hear. You know that all the springs in Fairy land Ran once to one head: from that head, to us: The mountain and the valley paid us fruit; The fie…
Randolph, Thomas, 1638 · pastoral · 8 chunks of this work here
Thy restitution is my feast Amyntas; Your curds and chestnuts and your country fare Is bounteous for so mean a guest as I: But send for that Urania her sweet voice Must sing a Lull…
Shakespeare, William, 1600 · comedy · 4 chunks of this work here
Captain of our Fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lovers fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! Stan…
Shakespeare, William, 1623 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
They are all couched in a pit hard by Hernes Oak, with obscured Lights; which at the very instant of Falstaffes and our meeting, they will at once display to the night. That cannot…
A., R., 1615 · history · 2 chunks of this work here
Fair Map of honour, where my reason reads Each navigable circle, that contains My happy voyage to the land of fame: Say, virtuous Prince, may Galled become so blest To follow thy f…
Churchyard, Thomas, 1578 · entertainment; royal entertainment or entry · 1 chunks of this work here
THough clean against the fairies kind, we come in open view, (And that the Queen of fairies here, presents herself to you) Some secret cause procures the same: the Gods at first, y…
Anonymous, 1585 · entertainment; royal entertainment or entry · 1 chunks of this work here
This compound case doth cause a fight in mind: to gain my child my grief would soon relent, Though in her flight she followed not her kind, but with her match I cannot be content. …
Shakespeare, William, 1623 · tragedy · 1 chunks of this work here
O than I see Queen Mab hath been with you: She is the Fairies Midwife, & she comes in shape no bigger than Agatstone, on the forefinger of an Alderman, drawn with a team of little …
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
history; allegory
15 (43 %)
pastoral
8 (23 %)
comedy
7 (20 %)
entertainment; royal entertainment or entry
2 (6 %)
history
2 (6 %)
tragedy
1 (3 %)
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.
The Valiant Welshman (Caradoc the Great) (1615) · typ. 0.87 …ts, And thence to Wales, where double joys attend A beauteous wife, and a most constant friend. Come, Ratsbane: Oh the intolerable pain that I suffer for the love of the Fairy Queen! my heels are all kybde in the very heat of my affection, that runs down into my legs: me thinks I could eat up a whole Broker's shop at a meal, to be eased o…
The Whore of Babylon (1607) · typ. 0.86 Thus— let's consult— nay you shall hear. You know that all the springs in Fairy land Ran once to one head: from that head, to us: The mountain and the valley paid us fruit; The field her corn, the country felt no heat But from our fires: Plenty…
Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry (1638) · typ. 0.86 …uld not you apples tempt a better conscience Than any we have to rob an Orchard? ha! Fairies, like Nymphs with child, must have the things They long for. You sing here a Fairy catch In that strange tongue I taught you: while ourself Do climb the Trees. Thus Princely Oberon Ascends his throne of State. Nos beata Fauni Proles, Quibus non es…
The Whore of Babylon (1607) · typ. 0.86 …entrance. They in a Fairy mask, the argument Of this their duty, gladly would present. As best them please. Your painted cheeks being off, your own discovers, You are no Fairies. No: but wounded lovers. How! lovers! what! would you deflower my bed, And strike off a poor maidenhead? We know you not: what are you? and from whence? The a lan…
The Whore of Babylon (1607) · typ. 0.84 …nne yeares. (uing) And we should wrong you; since you take vs gi- Too let you go with life, that should want living, What is it we can grant you. I ha' been by two great Fairies in your land, (Oppressed I dare not say) but so beaten down, And sunk so low now with my last disgrace, That all my happy thoughts lie in the dust, Ashamed to loo…
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600) · typ. 0.84 Captain of our Fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lovers fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be! Stand asi…
The Whore of Babylon (1607) · typ. 0.84 … by alternate course Worn in heavens forehead, So when Deaths Winter comes, And shortens all those beams of Majesty, Which in this oblique and Zodiacall Sphere Move with Titania now, shall lose their heat, Where must the next Sun rise but here? from whence Shall Fairy land get warmth? merely from hence. Let but the taper of her life burn …
Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry (1638) · typ. 0.84 …rier fool. It is a difficult cause, first let me pose'em! You Mopsus, cause you are a learned Augur, How many are the seven Liberal Sciences? Why much about a dozen. You Iocastus, When Oberon shaved himself, who was his Barber? I knew him well, a little dapper youth, They call him Periwinkle. Thestylis, A weighty cause and asks a longer t…
Amyntas, or The Impossible Dowry (1638) · typ. 0.83 …e Oberon, and his honoured Lords! We are betrayed. Bow wow wow. Nay nay since you have made a sheep of my Brother I'll be a dog to keep him. O good Mopsus! Does not your Grace, most low and mighty Dorylas, Fear whipping now? Good Mopsus but conceal us, And I will promise by to morrow night To get thee Thestylis. I will ask leave Of the bi…
The Queen's Entertainment at Woodstock (1585) · typ. 0.83 …our love and for her country's sake, it may fall out she will forget her love: Which being new and young did ravish so, now being old hath better leave to go, But yonder comes the maiden which was sent, and lo my Lady there for whom she went. 'tis true my L. your daughter is in place. perform your speech and let her find some grace. I mus…
The Valiant Welshman (Caradoc the Great) (1615) · typ. 0.83 …such, as all the world Shall wonder at Pheander's noble name: For otherwise, so are you also named. I know to what intent you hither come: You come to see your Love, the Fairy Queen. And talk with her here in this silent place, Her nimble Fairies, and herself do use Oft to repair: and long it will not be, Ere she come hither: but thus muc…
The Whore of Babylon (1607) · typ. 0.83 …lor, Already you speak music: you are strung With golden chords; Angels guide on your tongue. These potent, politic, and twin-born States, Would to their mitred fortunes tie our fates: Our Fairy groves are green, our temples stand Like goodly watchtowers, wafting passengers From rocks, t'arriue them in the Holy land: Peace (here) eats fru…
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