Topic 59 — Spanish courts: war, honour and courtship
Dominant work: 1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): tragedy 78%; tragicomedy 11%; comedy 6%
36chunks
17,911words
13works
3works with ≥3 chunks
39 %dominant work
64 %top-3 works
Classificationcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · confirmed by the researcher Label (researcher): Spanish courts: war, honour and courtship Notes (researcher): sample review supports a Spanish-court domain spanning war, honour, reward and courtship. Revise the Jeronimo-specific label; the Alphonsus sample shares royal/military concerns but is not the same narrative. Report concentration if this domain drives a finding. Reviewed excerpts (three different works): 520_00014; 190_00007; 357_00006.Original AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: Andrea, Horatio and the Spanish court (1 Jeronimo) · pattern basis: shared_narrative+recurring_role_or_name 36 chunks, 13 works, 1 Jeronimo 39 %, top three 64 %. The Spanish–Portuguese court of Kyd's world (Andrea, Horatio, Bel-imperia, Lorenzo, the tribute) with Dekker's Spanish plays and The Cid beside it; the Spanish Tragedy itself contributes two chunks. 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: 520_00012;1016_00015;953_00005;190_00001;190_00007;1150_00005;993_00029
Anonymous, 1605 · tragedy · 14 chunks of this work here
I bind thee Don Andrea, by thy honour, thy valiancy, And all that thou hold'st great, To meet me single in the battles heat; Where i'll set down, in characters upon thy flesh, four…
Dekker, Thomas, 1634 · tragedy · 6 chunks of this work here
My child, yet newly quickened in my womb, Is blasted with the fires of Bastardy. Who! who dares once but think so in his dream? Medina's faction preached it openly. Be cursed he an…
Dekker, Thomas, 1631 · tragicomedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Keep it, lustful maiden! Hot Spanish vengeance follows thee, which flies Like three forked Lightning, whom it smites, he dies. Pacheco? My Lord. Is't so early! What a Clocke Is't? …
Kyd, Thomas, 1592 · tragedy · 2 chunks of this work here
I by conceit my freedom is enthralled, Then with conceit enlarge yourself again. What if conceit have laid my heart to gauge? Pay that you borrowed and recover it. I die if it retu…
Rowley, William, 1633 · tragedy · 2 chunks of this work here
What hast thou there? A hundred marks, besides leases, and lands which I have wickedly gotten, all which I will bestow on thee, if thou wilt take the pains to hang me. Hum. my brot…
Fletcher, John, 1640 · comedy · 2 chunks of this work here
He shall not have his will, I shall prevent him, I have a toy here that will turn the tide, And suddenly, and strangely, here Don Iuan, Do you present it to him. I am commanded. A …
Peele, George, 1594 · tragedy · 1 chunks of this work here
Now have I set these Portugals a work, To hew a way for me unto the crown, Or with your weapons here to dig your graves, You dastards of the night and Erebus, Fiends, Fairies, hags…
Greene, Robert, 1599 · romance · 1 chunks of this work here
Welcome brave youths of Aragon to me. Yea welcome Miles, Lalius and the rest, Whose prowess alone hath been the only cause, That we like victor's have subdued our foes. Lord what a…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
tragedy
28 (78 %)
tragicomedy
4 (11 %)
comedy
2 (6 %)
romance
1 (3 %)
not in BritDrama
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.
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal (1605) · typ. 0.87 …ay my Lords, This will but breed a mutiny in the camp. I am all fire, andrea. Art thou, good: Why then i'll quench thee prince, with thine own blood. Adieu. Adieu. Let's meet. 'tis meet we did. Alexandro. lorenzo. Vollupo. Rogero. Don Pedro. Horatio. ay, ay, Don Pedro my boy shall meet thee, Come valiant spirits of Spain, Valiant Andrea, …
Match Me in London (1631) · typ. 0.87 …rtugals Have sworn to help me, it's hard trusting strangers, Nay more, to give them footing in a Land Is easy, hard to remove them; say they and I Should send my Brother King out of this world, And enthrone me (for that's the Star I reach at,) I must have Spain mine, more than Portugal, Say that the Dons and grandees were mine own, And th…
2 The Cid (1640) · typ. 0.87 … then of this time, compare Your Graces with your Rivals, and by them Guess what your fortune's like to be. Oh Heavens! With what eyes can I see this his approach? GReat King, than whom the Sun sees nothing happier, (Joy of your subjects' terror of your foes) At length the war respiring, gives me leave To have the honour to kneel here bef…
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal (1605) · typ. 0.86 …r predecessors lost to Spain, We have fresh spirits that can renew it again. Then I unclasp the purple leaves of war, Many a new wound must gasp, through an old scar: So Portugal I leave thee. ourself in person will see thee safe aboard: Come son, come Lords, In stead of tribute we must pay our swords. Remember Don andrea that we meet. Up…
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal (1605) · typ. 0.86 …ll didst thou stay here, Could honour melt itself into thy veins, And thou the fountain, I could wish it so, If thou wouldst remain here with me: and not go. 'tis but to Portugal. But to demand the tribute Lady. Tribute, alas that Spain, cannot of peace Forbear, a little coin, the Indies being so near, And yet this is not all: I know you …
The Noble Spanish Soldier (The Noble Soldier, or A (1634) · typ. 0.86 …d well both of Spain and us, We will not pay thy worth with loss of life, But banish thee for ever. For a groom's death? No more: we banish thee our Court and kingdom: A King that fosters men so dipped in blood, May be called merciful, but never good: Be gone upon thy life. Well: farewell. The fellow is not dead but wounded, Sir. After hi…
All's Lost by Lust (1633) · typ. 0.85 …, and my lungs. Fly, fly my Lord. With what wings? With wings of speed. Your foes, Sir, conquer, and your soldiers bleed, The barbarous Moore is titled by your name, The Spanish King; therefore your safest speed Will be to Biscany, there you may find New friends, new safety, and new kingly minds. There is no friendship where there is no p…
Match Me in London (1631) · typ. 0.85 Yes wondrously,— a kind of Megrim Sir. I think to bind Your Temples with the Crown of Spain would ease you. The Crown of Spain! my Temples! Nay, I but jest, A Kingdom would make any Sick man well, And Iohn I would thou hadst one. It shall go hard else. The King I thank him says that you and…
A Challenge for Beauty (1636) · typ. 0.85 …ight find you, and so find you never hereafter to lose you, for without you this is no place for me, and without me no Country can be a Country for you. And so a Fig for Spain, and a Prune for Portugal. I both accept and will reward thy love, If ere my Fate be to revisit home. First these, then several Countries we will try, To find out t…
Match Me in London (1631) · typ. 0.84 Thee and the traitorous Portugals to deprive me Of life and Crown, but I shall strike their King And them, and thee beneath into the earth. And lower than earth you cannot. Half your body is in …
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal (1605) · typ. 0.84 …hat means this trumpet's sound? My liege, the Portugalles. Are up in arms glittering in steel. Where's our lord general, lorenzo stout andrea, With whom I rank sprightly Horatio. what for shame, shall the Portugalles Trample the fields before you. No my liege, there's time enough To let out blood enough, tribute shall flow, Out of their b…
1 Jeronimo, with the Wars of Portugal (1605) · typ. 0.84 … 'tween her snowy paps that her heart hearing may relent and yield. Break of my Lord, see where she makes approach. then fall into your former veins of terms: Welcome my Lord, welcome brave Don Andrea, Spain's best of spirit: what news, From Portugal tribute or war, But see my Sister Bellimperia comes, I will defer it till some other time…
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