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3,875 | 15859_chapter_6,_sketch_second:_two_sides_to_a_tortoise | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Another Spenser quote, this one about a monster. Spenser writes about fairies, and The Enchanted Isles are a kind of blighted, evil faerie land. Is what Melville is getting at. Also, he just kind of likes burbling about fairy-lands. Anyway, Melville says that the Galapagos aren't all bad, and as proof points out that t... | [
"SKETCH SECOND. TWO SIDES TO A TORTOISE.",
"\"Most ugly shapes and horrible aspects,\n Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see,\n Or shame, that ever should so fowle defects\n From her most cunning hand escaped bee;\n All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee.\n No wonder if these do a man appall;\n For a... |
3,876 | 15859_chapter_7,_sketch_third_rodondo | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | More Spenser. Go away Spenser. Melville talks about how cool towers are in general. Then he talks about a cool elevated Rock called Rock Redondo, or Round Rock. It's a round rock. You can climb up it and look out and see far away. But first the narrator goes back and describes the first time he came to the Rodondo. It ... | [
"SKETCH THIRD. ROCK RODONDO.",
"\"For they this tight the Rock of vile Reproach,\n A dangerous and dreadful place,\n To which nor fish nor fowl did once approach,\n But yelling meaws with sea-gulls hoars and bace\n And cormoyrants with birds of ravenous race,\n Which still sit waiting on that dreadful clift.... |
3,877 | 15859_chapter_8,_sketch_four_a_pisgah_view_from_the_rock | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mount Pisgah is in the Bible; that's the reference there. Melville gets silly and says to climb the rock, you should travel round the world and learn juggling. The point is that you can't really climb the rock. So this is a sort of imaginative vision. He says you can see the coast of South America, and other islands ab... | [
"SKETCH FOURTH. A PISGAH VIEW FROM THE ROCK.",
"--\"That done, he leads him to the highest mount,\n From whence, far off he unto him did show:\"--",
"If you seek to ascend Rock Rodondo, take the following prescription. Go\nthree voyages round the world as a main-royal-man of the tallest frigate\nthat floats; t... |
3,878 | 15859_chapter_9,_sketch_fifth_the_frigate,_and_ship_flyaway | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is a really unusually pointless anecdote about U.S. explorer David Porter and his ship the Essex. His crew saw a ship, tried to catch it, and didn't. But it was in the Enchanted Isles, so everything seemed mysterious and...enchanted. Shmoop note: "The Encantadas" was the most popular piece in The Piazza Tales, ini... | [
"SKETCH FIFTH. THE FRIGATE, AND SHIP FLYAWAY.",
"\"Looking far forth into the ocean wide,\n A goodly ship with banners bravely dight,\n And flag in her top-gallant I espide,\n Through the main sea making her merry flight.\"",
"Ere quitting Rodondo, it must not be omitted that here, in 1813, the\nU.S. frigate... |
3,879 | 15859_chapter_10,_sketch_sixth_barrington_isle_and_the_buccaneers | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hey, there's a quote from Spenser. Hello quote from Spenser. Melville tells you that Barrington Island was the home of pirates, or buccaneers. Its isolation meant that pirates could hang out without fear of being hunted down and arrested. Barrington Island has trees and fruit and is generally pleasant, unlike all the o... | [
"SKETCH SIXTH. BARRINGTON ISLE AND THE BUCCANEERS.",
"\"Let us all servile base subjection scorn,\n And as we be sons of the earth so wide,\n Let us our father's heritage divide,\n And challenge to ourselves our portions dew\n Of all the patrimony, which a few\n hold on hugger-mugger in their hand.\"",
"* ... |
3,880 | 15859_chapter_11,_sketch_seventh_charles's_isle_and_the_dog_king | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | And hey, here's another quote from Spenser. The comparison with the Faerie Queene just never gets old for Melville. Charles's Isle is near Barrington Isle. And for once, Melville has an actual story to tell, sort of. Three cheers for an actual story! Hip, hip, hooray! It's not that much of a story, but Shmoop is desper... | [
"SKETCH SEVENTH. CHARLES'S ISLE AND THE DOG-KING.",
"--So with outragious cry,\n A thousand villeins round about him swarmed\n Out of the rocks and caves adjoining nye;\n Vile caitive wretches, ragged, rude, deformed;\n All threatning death, all in straunge manner armed;\n Some with unweldy clubs, some with ... |
3,881 | 15859_chapter_12,_sketch_eighth_norfolk_isle_and_the_chola_widow. | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is about Norfolk Isle, northeast of Charles's Island. This has a story too. A sad, sad, story of pathos, about turtles in love. Okay, not about turtles in love. But yes about pathos. Shmoop would rather have turtles in love. But Melville did not ask Shmoop. Anyway. So it's the narrator/Melville's first visit to th... | [
"SKETCH EIGHTH. NORFOLK ISLE AND THE CHOLA WIDOW.",
"\"At last they in an island did espy\n A seemly woman sitting by the shore,\n That with great sorrow and sad agony\n Seemed some great misfortune to deplore;\n And loud to them for succor called evermore.\"",
"\"Black his eye as the midnight sky.\n White... |
3,882 | 15859_chapter_13,_sketch_ninth_hood's_isle_and_the_hermit_oberlus | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spooky Spenser quote about some evil guy. Off to Hood's Isle, and a story about a hermit named Oberlus, who killed people. Oberlus is evil-looking and dressed in rags. He lives all alone on the island. He gets delusions of grandeur and decides he wants subjects. He gets hold of a firearm from somewhere. Oberlus sees a ... | [
"SKETCH NINTH. HOOD'S ISLE AND THE HERMIT OBERLUS.",
"\"That darkesome glen they enter, where they find\n That cursed man low sitting on the ground,\n Musing full sadly in his sullein mind;\n His griesly lockes long gronen and unbound,\n Disordered hong about his shoulders round,\n And hid his face, through ... |
3,883 | 15859_chapter_14,_sketch_tenth_runaways,_castaways,_solitaries,_grave_stones,_etc. | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator tells you that no other part of the world has as many hermits living there as the Galapagos. Captains can be tyrannical and awful, and escaping into the Galapagos is one of the few ways sailors have to get away. Turtle-hunting makes hermits sometimes too; people go into the interiors, get lost, and their s... | [
"SKETCH TENTH. RUNAWAYS, CASTAWAYS, SOLITARIES, GRAVE-STONES, ETC.",
"\"And all about old stocks and stubs of trees,\n Whereon nor fruit nor leaf was ever seen,\n Did hang upon ragged knotty knees,\n On which had many wretches hanged been.\"",
"Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this d... |
3,884 | 15859_chapter_15:_the_bell_tower | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is a gothic thriller type story with a twist ending. It's about Bannadonna, a somewhat sinister architect, and the bell-tower he built. The most difficult part of building the tower was the crafting of the giant bell. During the melting and forging process, the workmen were scared. Bannadonna was worried their fea... | [
"THE BELL-TOWER.",
"In the south of Europe, nigh a once frescoed capital, now with dank\nmould cankering its bloom, central in a plain, stands what, at distance,\nseems the black mossed stump of some immeasurable pine, fallen, in\nforgotten days, with Anak and the Titan.",
"As all along where the pine tree fall... |
3,885 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_empty_house | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's spring of 1894 in London and a famous dude, Ronal Adair, has been murdered. Sounds like a case for Sherlock Holmes! Except not, because Sherlock Holmes is dead. Watson, we're not really sure where this story is going. But Watson tells us to hold-up. He's writing this adventure around ten years after the events tha... | [
"I.--The Adventure of the Empty House.",
"IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested,\nand the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable\nRonald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The\npublic has already learned those particulars of the crime which... |
3,886 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_norwood_builder | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This story opens with Holmes and Watson having a chat. Holmes is complaining about how boring London is lately. Why isn't anyone going on a killing spree or something? Watson notes that most people would be grateful for the crime reduction. Holmes again bemoans that there's no super criminal for him to catch, and that ... | [
"II.--The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.",
"\"FROM the point of view of the criminal expert,\" said Mr. Sherlock\nHolmes, \"London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the\ndeath of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.\"",
"\"I can hardly think that you would find many decent citizens to agree\n... |
3,887 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_dancing_men | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sadly, this story has nothing to do with actual dancing men and cannot be subtitled "Watson and Holmes hit the London Club Scene." Serious bummer. The story opens with Holmes doing one of his parlor tricks, where he startles Watson with some out-of-the-blue observation and then explains how he arrived at the observatio... | [
"III.--The Adventure of the Dancing Men.",
"HOLMES had been seated for some hours in silence with his long,\nthin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a\nparticularly malodorous product. His head was sunk upon his breast, and\nhe looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with d... |
3,888 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_solitary_cyclist | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson opens with a little spiel about how he chooses which cases to publish. There are tons to choose from, but Watson picks the ones that are interesting, unusual, and that show off the awesome detective skills of Holmes. Good to know, Watson. We get a date for this case as well: April 1895. Sometimes Watson gives us... | [
"IV.--The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist.",
"FROM the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very\nbusy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any\ndifficulty in which he was not consulted during those eight years, and\nthere were hundreds of private cases, some of them of the ... |
3,889 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_priory_school | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | First off, a quick Context Lesson: This priory school is basically a fancy boarding school for boys. This school, and others like it, functioned as prep schools for boys heading off to college someday. By the 1890s, England did have mandatory public schools, so poor kids got at least some education. Richer kids went to... | [
"V.--The Adventure of the Priory School.",
"WE have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at\nBaker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling\nthan the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A., Ph.D., etc.\nHis card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of... |
3,890 | 221_the_adventure_of_black_peter | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This one sounds like a fun pirate story. There aren't any pirates, but there are hijinks at sea. Ahoy. Watson opens this story with a reference to the last story. He makes it clear that Holmes usually doesn't accept reward money and that he often turns down rich clients in order to help poor ones. Just in case the last... | [
"VI.--The Adventure of Black Peter.",
"I HAVE never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and\nphysical, than in the year '95. His increasing fame had brought with it\nan immense practice, and I should be guilty of an indiscretion if I\nwere even to hint at the identity of some of the illustrious clie... |
3,891 | 221_"the_adventure_of_charles_augustus_milverton" | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson let's us know that this is a very unusual story and it has to be shrouded in some secrecy in order to protect people's identities. Color us intrigued, Watson. One night Holmes comes in and tells Watson they're about to have a visitor. The visitor is a Charles Augustus Milverton, a professional blackmailer who is... | [
"VII.--The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton.",
"IT is years since the incidents of which I speak took place, and yet it\nis with diffidence that I allude to them. For a long time, even with the\nutmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make\nthe facts public; but now the principal ... |
3,892 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_six_napoleons | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inspector Lestrade is back yet again. He is chilling at Baker Street and he is distracted. Lestrade has a case that seems really stupid and weird, but it's bothering him. Holmes tells him to spill it. Lestrade tells us that a guy named Morse Hudson, who ran the 1890s version of Pier One, had someone smash a bust of Nap... | [
"VIII.--The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.",
"IT was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to\nlook in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock\nHolmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on\nat the police head-quarters. In return for the news ... |
3,893 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_three_students | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's 1895 and Holmes and Watson are at an unnamed English university. It's unnamed because this case is mildly scandalous, and Watson doesn't want to get anyone in trouble. However, you have a 50/50 chance of guessing correctly since Watson describes the university as a famous one with lots of gothic architecture. So i... | [
"IX.--The Adventure of the Three Students.",
"IT was in the year '95 that a combination of events, into which I need\nnot enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in\none of our great University towns, and it was during this time that the\nsmall but instructive adventure which I am about t... |
3,894 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_abbey_grange | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We jump forward a few years to 1897, in the winter. Holmes wakes Watson up at night and drags him off to a crime scene. We hope Watson has a decent benefits package, because his job really stinks sometimes. They hop a train to Kent and on the way Holmes shows Watson a note he got from Hopkins. There's been a weird murd... | [
"XII.--The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.",
"It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning during the winter of '97\nthat I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The\ncandle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face and told me at a\nglance that something was amiss.",
"\"Come, Watson, co... |
3,895 | 221_the_adventure_of_the_second_stain | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Watson says that the previous story was supposed to be the last one, but he had to add this crazy one as the grand finale. This case involves important politicians and a lot of the details have to remain top secret. We also learn that in the present day, around 1903, Holmes is retired and is working as a beekeeper in S... | [
"XIII.--The Adventure of the Second Stain.",
"I HAD intended \"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange\" to be the last of\nthose exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever\ncommunicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not due to any\nlack of material, since I have notes of many hundreds ... |
3,896 | 3618_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play begins November of 1885 in a lady's bedchamber in small-town Bulgaria at the end of the Serbo-Bulgarian War. The room is a confusing mixture of Bulgarian and Viennese decorations and furniture; the native pieces are rich and beautiful, but the occidental pieces are cheap and paltry. Between the door and the be... | [
"ARMS AND THE MAN. ACT I",
"Night. A lady's bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small\n town near the Dragoman Pass. It is late in\n November in the year 1885, and through an open\n window with a little balcony on the left can be\n seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and\n beautiful in the starl... |
3,897 | 3618_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A little less than four months have passed since the incident with the chocolate cream soldier. Louka and Nicola stand in the kitchen with the used breakfast dishes arguing about the proper attitude towards their employers. Louka sneeringly accuses Nicola of having "the soul of a servant" and hints that she could revea... | [
"ACT II",
"The sixth of March, 1886. In the garden of major\n Petkoff's house. It is a fine spring morning; and\n the garden looks fresh and pretty. Beyond the\n paling the tops of a couple of minarets can be\n seen, shewing that there is a valley there, with\n the little town in it. A few miles fu... |
3,898 | 3618_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act III opens with Captain Bluntschli hard at work in the so-called Petkoff library, which is really just a room with a single bookcase, coordinating troop movements and preparing papers for Sergius' signature. Major Petkoff sits reading the paper and occasionally looks up to ask Bluntschli if he can help; Sergius stan... | [
"ACT III",
"In the library after lunch. It is not much of a\n library, its literary equipment consisting of a\n single fixed shelf stocked with old paper-covered\n novels, broken backed, coffee stained, torn and\n thumbed, and a couple of little hanging shelves\n with a few gift books on them, the ... |
3,896 | 3618_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens at night in a lady's bedchamber in a small Bulgarian town in 1885, the year of the Serbo-Bulgarian war. The room is decorated in the worst possible taste, a taste reflected in the mistress' desire to seem as cultured and as Viennese as possible. But the room is furnished with only cheap bits of Viennese ... | [
"ARMS AND THE MAN. ACT I",
"Night. A lady's bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small\n town near the Dragoman Pass. It is late in\n November in the year 1885, and through an open\n window with a little balcony on the left can be\n seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and\n beautiful in the starl... |
3,897 | 3618_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some four months have passed since the first act, and a peace treaty has just been signed. The setting for this act is in Major Petkoff's garden. Louka is standing onstage in a disrespectful attitude, smoking a cigarette and talking to Nicola, a middle-aged servant who has "the complacency of the servant who values him... | [
"ACT II",
"The sixth of March, 1886. In the garden of major\n Petkoff's house. It is a fine spring morning; and\n the garden looks fresh and pretty. Beyond the\n paling the tops of a couple of minarets can be\n seen, shewing that there is a valley there, with\n the little town in it. A few miles fu... |
3,898 | 3618_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This act shifts to the Petkoffs' library, a setting which Shaw uses to let us know that this is a very poor excuse for a library; it consists of only a single room with a single shelf of old worn-out paper-covered novels; the rest of the room is more like a sitting room with another ottoman in it, just like the one in ... | [
"ACT III",
"In the library after lunch. It is not much of a\n library, its literary equipment consisting of a\n single fixed shelf stocked with old paper-covered\n novels, broken backed, coffee stained, torn and\n thumbed, and a couple of little hanging shelves\n with a few gift books on them, the ... |
3,896 | 3618_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is a lady's bedchamber in a small town in Bulgaria. It is Raina's room and as the curtain rises we see her on the balcony admiring the beauty of the snow-clad peaks on a starlit night in November. The decor is "half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese". All the ornamental fabrics in the room are oriental an... | [
"ARMS AND THE MAN. ACT I",
"Night. A lady's bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small\n town near the Dragoman Pass. It is late in\n November in the year 1885, and through an open\n window with a little balcony on the left can be\n seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and\n beautiful in the starl... |
3,899 | 2467_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get some more stage directions of which we should take note. The majority of the play takes place in a big garden-room. There are three doors leading out to other rooms. A round table is in the middle of the room, with the books, periodicals and newspapers that Mrs. Alving has been reading. There's a little sofa and... | [
"(SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand wall,\n and two in the right. In the middle of the room, a round table with\n chairs set about it, and books, magazines and newspapers upon it. In\n the foreground on the left, a window, by which is a small sofa with a\n work-table in front of it. A... |
3,900 | 2467_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The weather is still bad. Mrs. Alving and Pastor Manders come in from dinner, still in shock. Oswald says he'll go out. Wanting to get rid of Regina, Mrs. Alving sends her down to the laundry. Manders and Mrs. Alving have an urgent chat. What are they going to do? Mrs. Alving is sure Oswald isn't serious about Regina. ... | [
"(The same scene. The landscape is still obscured by Mist. MANDERS and\n MRS. ALVING come in from the dining-room.)",
"Mrs. Alving (calls into the dining-room from the doorway). Aren't you\ncoming in here, Oswald?",
"Oswald. No, thanks; I think I will go out for a bit.",
"Mrs. Alving. Yes, do; the weather is ... |
3,901 | 2467_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We're back in the garden room. All the doors stand open and the lamp is still on the table. There's a faint, fiery glow coming through the windows. Mrs. Alving and Regina are looking at the remains of the Orphanage. Mrs. Alving goes out to look for Oswald, and just then Pastor Manders comes in, in a paranoid tizzy. Eng... | [
"(The same scene. All the doors are standing open. The lamp is still\n burning on the table. It is dark outside, except for a faint glimmer of\n light seen through the windows at the back. MRS. ALVING, with a shawl\n over her head, is standing in the conservatory, looking out. REGINA,\n also wrapped in a shawl, is ... |
3,899 | 2467_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Regina Engstrand, a young girl in service for Mrs. Alving, appears in the garden. She tries to prevent her father, Jacob Engstrand, from entering. The rain makes the old man even more disreputable looking than usual, and Regina makes it clear she is ashamed of his coarseness and vulgar appearance. Engstrand has come to... | [
"(SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand wall,\n and two in the right. In the middle of the room, a round table with\n chairs set about it, and books, magazines and newspapers upon it. In\n the foreground on the left, a window, by which is a small sofa with a\n work-table in front of it. A... |
3,900 | 2467_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is unchanged, but now it has stopped raining and a mist obscures the outside landscape. With dinner finished, Oswald out for a walk, and Regina busy with the laundry, Mrs. Alving and Manders continue their conversation. She tells how she managed to hush up the scandal of Alving's conduct by providing Joanna w... | [
"(The same scene. The landscape is still obscured by Mist. MANDERS and\n MRS. ALVING come in from the dining-room.)",
"Mrs. Alving (calls into the dining-room from the doorway). Aren't you\ncoming in here, Oswald?",
"Oswald. No, thanks; I think I will go out for a bit.",
"Mrs. Alving. Yes, do; the weather is ... |
3,901 | 2467_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene still takes place in Mrs. Alving's home, but it is night time. By now the fire is out, the entire orphanage burned to the ground. While Mrs. Alving has gone to fetch Oswald, Regina and Manders receive Engstrand. "God help us all," he says piously and clucking sympathetically says that the prayer meeting cause... | [
"(The same scene. All the doors are standing open. The lamp is still\n burning on the table. It is dark outside, except for a faint glimmer of\n light seen through the windows at the back. MRS. ALVING, with a shawl\n over her head, is standing in the conservatory, looking out. REGINA,\n also wrapped in a shawl, is ... |
3,902 | 4093_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | NOTE: The physical set-up is IMPORTANT to the play. Make sure you read our description carefully. The play begins in an elegant drawing room. At the back wall is a doorway opening to a smaller, inner room. The curtains adorning this doorway are currently drawn back, revealing the inner room behind them. On the left wal... | [
"ACT FIRST.",
"A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room,\n decorated in dark colours. In the back, a wide doorway with\n curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated\n in the same style as the drawing-room. In the right-hand\n wall of the front room, a folding door leading out... |
3,903 | 4093_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II takes place in the same furnished room at the Tesmans' house. The piano is gone and in its place is a small writing desk. Many of the flowers from Act I are gone. Hedda is alone, by the open glass door, loading a revolver. She looks down from the balcony and calls hello to Judge Brack. Then she shoots her pistol... | [
"ACT SECOND.",
"The room at the TESMANS' as in the first Act, except that the\n piano has been removed, and an elegant little writing-table\n with the book-shelves put in its place. A smaller table\n stands near the sofa on the left. Most of the bouquets have\n been taken away. MRS. ELVSTED'S bouquet is up... |
3,904 | 4093_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act III opens in the same room at the Tesmans' house. The doorway to the inner room at the back of the stage is covered by curtains. The light is low, as the curtains are also drawn over the glass doors on the left of the stage. The fire is nearly burnt out. Hedda, still dressed, is passed out on the sofa sleeping, and... | [
"ACT THIRD.",
"The room at the TESMANS'. The curtains are drawn over the\n middle doorway, and also over the glass door. The lamp,\n half turned down, and with a shade over it, is burning on\n the table. In the stove, the door of which stands open,\n there has been a fire, which is now nearly burnt out.",
... |
3,905 | 4093_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is evening in the same room at the Tesmans. The room is dark, the curtains on the patio door are drawn, and Hedda is pacing around wearing black. She moves to the inner room, out of sight on the left side, and we hear a few piano chords. Hedda returns to the front room and Berta passes through briefly, also wearing ... | [
"ACT FOURTH.",
"The same rooms at the TESMANS'. It is evening. The drawing-\n room is in darkness. The back room is light by the hanging\n lamp over the table. The curtains over the glass door are\n drawn close.",
"HEDDA, dressed in black, walks to and fro in the dark room.\n Then she goes into the back... |
3,902 | 4093_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a six-months wedding trip, the bride and groom have returned home. Aunt Julia, George's aunt, arrives to welcome them the following morning. As the curtain rises, the motherly old lady enters the well-furnished living room. She hands a bouquet of flowers to Bertha, the servant, who places them among the others wh... | [
"ACT FIRST.",
"A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room,\n decorated in dark colours. In the back, a wide doorway with\n curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated\n in the same style as the drawing-room. In the right-hand\n wall of the front room, a folding door leading out... |
3,903 | 4093_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the curtain rises, Hedda is busy loading one of her pistols. There is nothing else to do besides shoot, she tells Judge Brack, who has come to see George. As they chat, Hedda tells him how bored she was during her wedding trip. She complains that her husband, with his everlasting talk about medieval civilization, is... | [
"ACT SECOND.",
"The room at the TESMANS' as in the first Act, except that the\n piano has been removed, and an elegant little writing-table\n with the book-shelves put in its place. A smaller table\n stands near the sofa on the left. Most of the bouquets have\n been taken away. MRS. ELVSTED'S bouquet is up... |
3,904 | 4093_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is 7:00 the next morning. The ladies have been fitfully dozing during their night watch, and Hedda now sends Thea off for a good nap, promising to wake her when Lovborg arrives. When George appears, Hedda is wide awake and listens eagerly as he tells her of Lovborg's extravagant behavior at the party. He was so drun... | [
"ACT THIRD.",
"The room at the TESMANS'. The curtains are drawn over the\n middle doorway, and also over the glass door. The lamp,\n half turned down, and with a shade over it, is burning on\n the table. In the stove, the door of which stands open,\n there has been a fire, which is now nearly burnt out.",
... |
3,905 | 4093_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is later in the evening. Miss Tesman enters, dressed in mourning. Hedda greets her, expressing regret for Rina's death. Aunt Julia plans to fill the gap in her life by finding someone to care for. Because it is necessary to live for someone, she says, she will seek an occupant for Rina's little room -- some invalid ... | [
"ACT FOURTH.",
"The same rooms at the TESMANS'. It is evening. The drawing-\n room is in darkness. The back room is light by the hanging\n lamp over the table. The curtains over the glass door are\n drawn close.",
"HEDDA, dressed in black, walks to and fro in the dark room.\n Then she goes into the back... |
3,902 | 4093_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the play opens, George and Hedda Tesman have just returned from their six month honeymoon the night before and Tesman's Aunt Juliana, an unmarried lady of sixty-five, calls on them the following morning. Berte, Tesman's maid, greets her and admits that she is afraid she will not get on with her new mistress since sh... | [
"ACT FIRST.",
"A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room,\n decorated in dark colours. In the back, a wide doorway with\n curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated\n in the same style as the drawing-room. In the right-hand\n wall of the front room, a folding door leading out... |
3,903 | 4093_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That same afternoon Hedda, who is dressed to receive callers is loading one of her pistols when Brack enters from the back. From his inquiry of her current status, the audience discovers that Hedda is bored with her marriage and only married Tesman because he was safe. Brack suggests that to amuse her she should consid... | [
"ACT SECOND.",
"The room at the TESMANS' as in the first Act, except that the\n piano has been removed, and an elegant little writing-table\n with the book-shelves put in its place. A smaller table\n stands near the sofa on the left. Most of the bouquets have\n been taken away. MRS. ELVSTED'S bouquet is up... |
3,904 | 4093_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is early the next morning and Lovborg has not yet returned to escort Mrs. Elvsted home. Berte comes in with a letter she has just received for the Doctor. Hedda has managed to sleep soundly but Mrs. Elvsted could not sleep at all so Hedda persuades her to sleep in her room. When Tesman returns, he tells Hedda what a... | [
"ACT THIRD.",
"The room at the TESMANS'. The curtains are drawn over the\n middle doorway, and also over the glass door. The lamp,\n half turned down, and with a shade over it, is burning on\n the table. In the stove, the door of which stands open,\n there has been a fire, which is now nearly burnt out.",
... |
3,905 | 4093_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later in the evening, Aunt Julia comes to the house to bring tidings of Aunt Rina's death "in the house of life." She tells Hedda that she has decided to keep find some poor invalid who needs nursing to keep her occupied. Tesman returns and although quite affected by the death of his aunt, he is more concerned about Lo... | [
"ACT FOURTH.",
"The same rooms at the TESMANS'. It is evening. The drawing-\n room is in darkness. The back room is light by the hanging\n lamp over the table. The curtains over the glass door are\n drawn close.",
"HEDDA, dressed in black, walks to and fro in the dark room.\n Then she goes into the back... |
3,902 | 4093_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curtain rises on the fashionable home of newlyweds Jorgen Tesman--a recently minted academic doctor who is the leading candidate for a prestigious university position--and Hedda, his wife, the well-known daughter of General Gabler. The couple is not visible as the play begins; they returned very late the night befo... | [
"ACT FIRST.",
"A spacious, handsome, and tastefully furnished drawing room,\n decorated in dark colours. In the back, a wide doorway with\n curtains drawn back, leading into a smaller room decorated\n in the same style as the drawing-room. In the right-hand\n wall of the front room, a folding door leading out... |
3,903 | 4093_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brack is approaching the Tesman's home--but from the back. The audience quickly discovers that he is paying a somewhat surreptitious visit to Hedda--who, for her part, is still practicing with her father's pistols. The purpose of Brack's visit is somewhat ambiguous, as he and Hedda engage in much flirtatious dialo... | [
"ACT SECOND.",
"The room at the TESMANS' as in the first Act, except that the\n piano has been removed, and an elegant little writing-table\n with the book-shelves put in its place. A smaller table\n stands near the sofa on the left. Most of the bouquets have\n been taken away. MRS. ELVSTED'S bouquet is up... |
3,904 | 4093_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The curtain rises on the Tesman's home the next morning. The male revelers have still not returned from Brack's bachelor party; Mrs. Elvsted is anxiously keeping vigil in a chair, while Hedda is sleeping on a couch. Berte enters with a letter and an offer to put more wood on the fire, which offer Mrs. Elvsted declines.... | [
"ACT THIRD.",
"The room at the TESMANS'. The curtains are drawn over the\n middle doorway, and also over the glass door. The lamp,\n half turned down, and with a shade over it, is burning on\n the table. In the stove, the door of which stands open,\n there has been a fire, which is now nearly burnt out.",
... |
3,905 | 4093_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aunt Juliane arrives at the Tesmans' home, in mourning dress; her sister, Rina, has died, and she wanted to bring the news to Hedda personally. She also makes an oblique reference that indicates she believes Hedda will soon be pregnant. Hedda does not respond. Tesman returns home, and, while speaking of how she will re... | [
"ACT FOURTH.",
"The same rooms at the TESMANS'. It is evening. The drawing-\n room is in darkness. The back room is light by the hanging\n lamp over the table. The curtains over the glass door are\n drawn close.",
"HEDDA, dressed in black, walks to and fro in the dark room.\n Then she goes into the back... |
3,906 | 1517_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street in Windsor, England, we meet three guys: Justice Robert Shallow ; Shallow's nephew Abraham Slender, who has a habit of strutting around with his nose up in the air; and Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh clergyman with a seriously thick accent. The guys are all standing around talking smack about everyone's favorite d... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.",
"Windsor. Before PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.]",
"SHALLOW.\nSir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter\nof it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not\nabuse Robert Shallow, esquire.",
"SLENDER.\nIn the county of Glouce... |
3,907 | 1517_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After dinner, Evans sends a servant named Peter Simple to hand-deliver a letter to a woman named Mistress Quickly. Since Mistress Quickly is chummy with Anne Page, Evans wants her to talk to Anne about marrying Slender. We find out that Mistress Quickly is the servant of a guy named Doctor Caius and lives at his house.... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"The same.",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.]",
"EVANS.\nGo your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way; and\nthere dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his\nnurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer,\nand his wringer.",
"SIMPLE.\nWell, ... |
3,908 | 1517_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later on, Falstaff and company chill out at the Garter Inn. Sir John Falstaff confides to the Host of the Garter Inn that he's completely broke. Brain Snack: In Elizabethan England, being a knight didn't necessarily = being a baller. In fact, lots of members of the nobility had very little money. We talk about this mor... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nMine host of the Garter!",
"HOST.\nWhat says my bully rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.",
"FALSTAFF.\nTruly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.",
"HOST.\nDiscard, bully Hercul... |
3,909 | 1517_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at Doctor Caius's house, the servant Peter Simple has arrived with a letter for Mistress Quickly. Mistress Quickly asks a servant to go to the window and be on the lookout for Doctor Caius, since Caius will be crazy angry if he comes home and finds another guy in his house. After some discussion about how Slender ... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in DOCTOR CAIUS'S house.",
"[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, and SIMPLE.]",
"QUICKLY.\nWhat, John Rugby!",
"[Enter RUGBY.]",
"I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master,\nMaster Doctor Caius, coming: if he do, i' faith, and find anybody\nin the house, here will be an old ... |
3,910 | 1517_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at the Page's house, Mistress Page reads Falstaff's steamy love letter, which sounds a lot like this: Dear Mistress Page: I love you, baby. We should get together for the following reasons: We're both old, we both like to have a good time, and we both really like to drink. What do you say? XOXO, Your Knight in Shi... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.",
"Before PAGE'S house",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nWhat! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty,\nand am I now a subject for them? Let me see.",
"'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason\n for his precisian, he admits h... |
3,911 | 1517_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at the Garter Inn, Falstaff refuses to loan money to Pistol, who, apparently, is always asking Falstaff for spare change. Pistol draws his sword and yells "Why then, the world's mine oyster, / which I with sword will open." Brain Snack: This is the first time this phrase appears in print so, Shakespeare either inv... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nI will not lend thee a penny.",
"PISTOL.\nWhy then, the world's mine oyster,\nWhich I with sword will open.\nI will retort the sum in equipage.",
"FALSTAFF.\nNot a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my counte... |
3,912 | 1517_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Remember that Caius challenged Evans to a duel? Well, they're getting ready to rumble in a field in Windsor Park. Caius is all dramatic. He slashes his sword around and declares that Evans is lucky he's a no-show--otherwise, the clergyman would be dog meat by now. Here comes someone--but it's not Evans. It's the Host o... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A field near Windsor.",
"[Enter CAIUS and RUGBY.]",
"CAIUS.\nJack Rugby!",
"RUGBY.\nSir?",
"CAIUS.\nVat is de clock, Jack?",
"RUGBY.\n'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.",
"CAIUS.\nBy gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he has pray his\nPible vell dat he is ... |
3,913 | 1517_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at Frogmore fields, Evans has been waiting for Caius to show up. He's carrying a big sword and a Bible. Simple is there, too, and Evans sends him off to look for Caius. Evans whips open his bible and declares "Jeshu pless me" , right before swearing to God that he's going to knock Caius's "urinals about his knave'... | [
"ACT III SCENE 1.",
"A field near Frogmore.",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.]",
"EVANS.\nI pray you now, good Master Slender's serving-man, and friend\nSimple by your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius,\nthat calls himself doctor of physic?",
"SIMPLE.\nMarry, sir, the pittie-ward, the par... |
3,914 | 1517_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street in Windsor, Falstaff's boy servant follows Mistress Page around like a little puppy. They're on their way to see Mistress Ford when they bump into Mistress Ford's jealous, insecure husband. Master Ford makes a snide crack about his wife's friendship with Mistress Page, saying he thinks that they'd marry eac... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A street in Windsor.",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nNay, keep your way, little gallant: you were wont to be a follower,\nbut now you are a leader. Whether had you rather lead mine eyes,\nor eye your master's heels?",
"ROBIN.\nI had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man ... |
3,915 | 1517_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at Ford's house, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page get ready to punk Falstaff and Master Ford. Falstaff's going to show up any minute, so they order the servants to set up a "buck-basket" in the room. Mistress Ford tells the servants to wait for her signal and then carry the buck-basket down to the river and dump it... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.]",
"MRS. FORD.\nWhat, John! what, Robert!",
"MRS. PAGE.\nQuickly, quickly:--Is the buck-basket--",
"MRS. FORD.\nI warrant. What, Robin, I say!",
"[Enter SERVANTS with a basket.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nCome, come, come.",
"MRS. F... |
3,916 | 1517_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside Master Page's house, Anne and dreamy Fenton get cozy and talk about their future together. Fenton is bummed out that Anne's dad hates him and won't let him marry his daughter. Fenton tells Anne that her dad doesn't like him because he thinks he's a spoiled brat who wasted all his money and wants to marry Anne b... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter FENTON, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS QUICKLY. MISTRESS QUICKLY\nstands apart.]",
"FENTON.\nI see I cannot get thy father's love;\nTherefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.",
"ANNE.\nAlas! how then?",
"FENTON.\nWhy, thou must be thyself.\nHe doth object, I am to... |
3,917 | 1517_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the garter Inn, Falstaff orders Bardolph to "fetch" him a "quart of sack" with a piece of toast in it. Hey, wine and toast: actually totally a thing, especially if you call the toast a "rusk" and think of it like a biscotti. Falstaff complains to anyone who will listen about being dumped in the Thames river with a b... | [
"SCENE 5.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nBardolph, I say,--",
"BARDOLPH.\nHere, sir.",
"FALSTAFF.\nGo fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in 't.",
"[Exit BARDOLPH.]",
"Have I lived to be carried in a basket, and to be thrown in the\nThames like a barrow ... |
3,918 | 1517_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mistress Page chats with Mistress Quickly as she attempts to drop off her son at school. Evans shows up and announces that school has been canceled that day. Mistress Page complains that her little boy is having a hard time with his Latin grammar, and she asks Evans to give him a mini-tutorial. Evans proceeds to give l... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The street.",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nIs he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?",
"QUICKLY.\nSure he is by this; or will be presently; but truly he is very\ncourageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford\ndesires you to... |
3,919 | 1517_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff show up at the Ford house and starts to sweet talk Mistress Ford. He's worried that her husband will show up, so Mistress Ford promises him that her husband's out bird hunting with his pals. Then Mistress Page shows up and Falstaff hides in the next room. Mistress Page acts like she doesn't know Falstaff is hi... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nMistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance. I see you\nare obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair's\nbreadth; not only, Mistress Ford, in the simple office of love,\nbut in all the accoutre... |
3,920 | 1517_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Garter Inn, Bardolph chats with the Host. Bardolph wants to know if a group of German guests can borrow some horses so they can meet the German Duke at Windsor Castle. The Host agrees but he's not happy about, it since the Germans guests have been at the Inn for a week and haven't paid any of their bills. So he'... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter HOST and BARDOLPH.]",
"BARDOLPH.\nSir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses; the Duke\nhimself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.",
"HOST.\nWhat duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in\nthe court. Let me... |
3,921 | 1517_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at the Ford's house, the married couples have a good laugh about the pranks that have been played on Falstaff. Ford apologizes to his wife and vows never to mistrust her again. They all agree that the "merry wives" should punk Falstaff again, just to make sure he's learned his lesson about preying on honest housew... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH\nEVANS.]",
"EVANS.\n'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever I did look upon.",
"PAGE.\nAnd did he send you both these letters at an instant?",
"MRS. PAGE.\nWithin a quarter of an hour.",
"FO... |
3,922 | 1517_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Simple shows up at the Garter Inn looking to deliver a message to Falstaff from his master, Slender. The Host tries to send him up to Falstaff's room but Simple's afraid to go up because he thinks Falstaff is up there getting busy with "the old woman of Brentford." It turns out that Simple and Slender want to talk to "... | [
"SCENE 5.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter HOST and SIMPLE.]",
"HOST.\nWhat wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick-skin? Speak, breathe,\ndiscuss; brief, short, quick, snap.",
"SIMPLE.\nMarry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.",
"HOST.\nThere's his chamber, his house, hi... |
3,923 | 1517_act_4,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Host returns to the Garter Inn after trying to chase down the guys who stole his horses. He's super bummed but cheers up right away when Fenton offers him some gold if he'll help him elope with Anne.The Host loves money so, naturally, he takes it. Fenton's got a plan that involves the wives' plot to punk Falstaff t... | [
"SCENE 6.",
"Another room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FENTON and HOST.]",
"HOST.\nMaster Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy; I will give over all.",
"FENTON.\nYet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,\nAnd, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee\nA hundred pound in gold more than your loss.",
"HOST.... |
3,924 | 1517_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Garter Inn, Falstaff chats with Mistress Quickly, who promises to help him put together his "Herne the Hunter" costume. Ford shows up in his "Brooke" disguise, and Falstaff tells him all about being beaten by that crazy guy Master Ford. Falstaff admits he's never been beaten so badly in his life, not even when h... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nPrithee, no more prattling; go: I'll hold. This is the third time;\nI hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away! go. They say there is\ndivinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!",
... |
3,925 | 1517_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later that night, Page, Shallow, and Slender walk near Windsor Park. Slender says he and Anne have worked out code words to help them recognize one another. Shallow reminds him Anne's going to be wearing all white, so there's no need for code words. Master Page says it's a dark night, which will help them with their pl... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"Windsor Park.",
"[Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER.]",
"PAGE.\nCome, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we see the light\nof our fairies. Remember, son Slender, my daughter.",
"SLENDER.\nAy, forsooth; I have spoke with her, and we have a nay-word how\nto know one another. I come to her ... |
3,926 | 1517_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mistress Page, Mistress Ford, and Doctor Caius also meet up near the park. Mistress Page tells Caius that Anne's going to be dressed in green that night and that he should grab her and run off to get married when he has the chance. Say it with us: ugh, mom. We find out that Anne and the other "fairies" are waiting for ... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"The street in Windsor.",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and DOCTOR CAIUS.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nMaster Doctor, my daughter is in green; when you see your time,\ntake her by the hand, away with her to the deanery, and dispatch\nit quickly. Go before into the Park; we two must go together.",
"CA... |
3,927 | 1517_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evans, Page, and a bunch of little kids dressed as fairies show up at the park. For some reason, Evans is dressed as a satyr. FYI: A satyr is a mythological, sex-crazed creature that's half man and half goat. By the way, our favorite moody teenager is famous for calling his stepdad/uncle a "satyr" in Act 1, scene 2 of ... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"Windsor Park",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies.]",
"EVANS.\nTrib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts. Be pold,\nI pray you; follow me into the pit; and when I give the watch-ords,\ndo as I pid you. Come, come; trib, trib.",
"[Exeunt.]"
] |
3,928 | 1517_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The clock strikes midnight as Falstaff shows up at the park dressed as "Herne the hunter" and wearing a huge set of horns on his head. Falstaff compares himself to Jupiter, the god who turned himself into a swan and raped Europa. Gross. Then he declares that he's a "stag" in the middle of "rut-time" . Go ahead and cove... | [
"SCENE 5.",
"Another part of the Park.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF disguised as HERNE with a buck's head on.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nThe Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on. Now the\nhot-blooded gods assist me! Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for\nthy Europa; love set on thy horns. O powerful love! that in so... |
3,906 | 1517_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The "Country Justice" Shallow complains to Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson, about a wrong which has been done to him by Sir John Falstaff: "I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it. If he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, Esquire." Sir Hugh momentarily calms the angry waters by suggesting... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.",
"Windsor. Before PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.]",
"SHALLOW.\nSir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter\nof it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not\nabuse Robert Shallow, esquire.",
"SLENDER.\nIn the county of Glouce... |
3,929 | 1517_scenes_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evans sends Slender's servant, Simple, with a message to Mistress Quickly "to desire and require her to solicit your master's desires to Mistress Anne Page." Falstaff, meanwhile, conspires with his men at the Garter Inn to "make love to Ford's wife" because "the report goes she has all the rule of her husband's purse."... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"The same.",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.]",
"EVANS.\nGo your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which is the way; and\nthere dwells one Mistress Quickly, which is in the manner of his\nnurse, or his dry nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer,\nand his wringer.",
"SIMPLE.\nWell, ... |
3,909 | 1517_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Simple describes his master to Mistress Quickly, to whom he has gone at Hugh Evans' bidding: He hath but a little wee face, with a little yellow beard -- a Cain-coloured beard. Quickly agrees to help Shallow in his plans to woo Anne Page, but before she can elaborate, her own master, the "French physician" Doctor Caius... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in DOCTOR CAIUS'S house.",
"[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, and SIMPLE.]",
"QUICKLY.\nWhat, John Rugby!",
"[Enter RUGBY.]",
"I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master,\nMaster Doctor Caius, coming: if he do, i' faith, and find anybody\nin the house, here will be an old ... |
3,910 | 1517_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford enter with the news that they have received identical letters from Falstaff, pledging his love to each. Needless to say, they are both outraged. Mrs. Page: "One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant"; Mrs. Ford: "I shall think the worse of fat men as long as I... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.",
"Before PAGE'S house",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nWhat! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty,\nand am I now a subject for them? Let me see.",
"'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason\n for his precisian, he admits h... |
3,911 | 1517_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pistol begs a loan from Falstaff; after all, it is he who usually takes the risks in their petty crimes. Falstaff reminds the lesser partner that it is only through his -- Falstaff's -- greater influence and connections that Pistol avoids failure. In typically pompous fashion, Falstaff asks, "Think'st thou I'll endange... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nI will not lend thee a penny.",
"PISTOL.\nWhy then, the world's mine oyster,\nWhich I with sword will open.\nI will retort the sum in equipage.",
"FALSTAFF.\nNot a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my counte... |
3,912 | 1517_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a field near Windsor, Doctor Caius and his servant, John Rugby, have already waited beyond the appointed hour for Sir Hugh Evans. When Shallow arrives with several others, he muses that it is for the best that no duel has taken place, since it would "go against the hair of your profession"; that is, for a healer of ... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A field near Windsor.",
"[Enter CAIUS and RUGBY.]",
"CAIUS.\nJack Rugby!",
"RUGBY.\nSir?",
"CAIUS.\nVat is de clock, Jack?",
"RUGBY.\n'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.",
"CAIUS.\nBy gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he has pray his\nPible vell dat he is ... |
3,930 | 1517_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts to Frogmore, where Hugh Evans vows to "knog urinals about his knave's costard ." When he notices Page, Slender, and Shallow on their way toward him, he quickly puts on his gown and reads from his holy book. They notice the sword, and Shallow asks, "What, the sword and the word ! Do you study them both,... | [
"ACT III SCENE 1.",
"A field near Frogmore.",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.]",
"EVANS.\nI pray you now, good Master Slender's serving-man, and friend\nSimple by your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius,\nthat calls himself doctor of physic?",
"SIMPLE.\nMarry, sir, the pittie-ward, the par... |
3,915 | 1517_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff steps into the trap set for him by Mrs. Page and Mrs. Ford. "Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel?" the fat knight croons to Mrs. Ford upon arrival, only to find himself a few minutes later demeaningly transported out of her house in a "buck-basket" to avoid discovery by her husband. Ford is fooled as well, s... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE.]",
"MRS. FORD.\nWhat, John! what, Robert!",
"MRS. PAGE.\nQuickly, quickly:--Is the buck-basket--",
"MRS. FORD.\nI warrant. What, Robin, I say!",
"[Enter SERVANTS with a basket.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nCome, come, come.",
"MRS. F... |
3,931 | 1517_scenes_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fenton assures Anne Page that he truly loves her, although he admits her "father's wealth / Was the first motive that I wooed thee." Their conversation ends abruptly when Slender arrives. Anne despairingly speaks her thoughts on the matter in an aside: This is my father's choice. O what a world of vile, ill-favoured fa... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter FENTON, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS QUICKLY. MISTRESS QUICKLY\nstands apart.]",
"FENTON.\nI see I cannot get thy father's love;\nTherefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.",
"ANNE.\nAlas! how then?",
"FENTON.\nWhy, thou must be thyself.\nHe doth object, I am to... |
3,918 | 1517_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Page asks Sir Hugh Evans to test her son William in his Latin grammatical inflections. While Sir Hugh does so, Mistress Quickly repeatedly interrupts with absurd comments and off-color remarks, deriving from unintentional puns on the Latin words which William recites. | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The street.",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nIs he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?",
"QUICKLY.\nSure he is by this; or will be presently; but truly he is very\ncourageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford\ndesires you to... |
3,919 | 1517_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The wives engineer a second narrow escape for Falstaff from the furious Ford, this time as "the witch of Brainford," Mrs. Ford's maid's fat aunt, the mere sight of whom sends Ford into a rage. Falstaff submits to disguising himself as a woman so that he can evade Ford and the crowd which accompanies him. To escape, how... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nMistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my sufferance. I see you\nare obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair's\nbreadth; not only, Mistress Ford, in the simple office of love,\nbut in all the accoutre... |
3,921 | 1517_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Scene 4, Ford begs pardon of his wife for his being such a fool -- "I rather will suspect the sun with cold / Than thee with wantonness" -- and the group decides to have one last sport at Falstaff's expense. A local folk tale has it that "Herne the Hunter," many years ago a gamekeeper in Windsor Forest, haunts the a... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in FORD'S house.",
"[Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and SIR HUGH\nEVANS.]",
"EVANS.\n'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever I did look upon.",
"PAGE.\nAnd did he send you both these letters at an instant?",
"MRS. PAGE.\nWithin a quarter of an hour.",
"FO... |
3,920 | 1517_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 3 is an interlude in which Bardolph tells the Host of the Garter Inn about the arrival of a German duke. Three of his compatriots need to hire horses to go meet him. The Host emphasizes that he will "make them pay; I'll sauce them | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter HOST and BARDOLPH.]",
"BARDOLPH.\nSir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses; the Duke\nhimself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.",
"HOST.\nWhat duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in\nthe court. Let me... |
3,932 | 1517_scenes_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Slender has sent his man Simple to seek the advice of the "Witch of Brainford" on two matters: a chain which he suspects Nym to have stolen and the prospects of his marrying Anne Page. Falstaff explains that the fat woman has just left, but not before they discussed these very things. Stupidly satisfied that his master... | [
"SCENE 5.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter HOST and SIMPLE.]",
"HOST.\nWhat wouldst thou have, boor? What, thick-skin? Speak, breathe,\ndiscuss; brief, short, quick, snap.",
"SIMPLE.\nMarry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff from Master Slender.",
"HOST.\nThere's his chamber, his house, hi... |
3,933 | 1517_scenes_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff promises Master Brook some "wonders" at midnight by Herne's oak; Page reminds Slender that his daughter will be waiting; and Mrs. Page reassures Caius that Anne Page is ready to be swept away "to the deanery" ; Hugh Evans, disguised as a satyr, calls "Trib, trib , fairies" and leads a troop of revelers to thei... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nPrithee, no more prattling; go: I'll hold. This is the third time;\nI hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away! go. They say there is\ndivinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!",
... |
3,934 | 1517_act_1,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Justice Shallow enters a city street with Master Slender and Sir Hugh Evans. Shallow is angry at Sir John Falstaff and says he will bring him before the court. Evans, a man of the church, misunderstands and thinks he can help bring Falstaff before a church council. Evans suggests that they focus their attentions on try... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.",
"Windsor. Before PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.]",
"SHALLOW.\nSir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter\nof it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not\nabuse Robert Shallow, esquire.",
"SLENDER.\nIn the county of Glouce... |
3,935 | 1517_act_1,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff, Bardolph, Nim, and Pistol enter The Garter Inn and call for the inn's Host. Falstaff makes a deal with the Host to be housed for a certain sum, while Bardolph will double as the Host's bartender. Falstaff says he is glad to have Bardolph off his hands for a time, and tells Pistol and Nim of his plans. He anno... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nMine host of the Garter!",
"HOST.\nWhat says my bully rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.",
"FALSTAFF.\nTruly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.",
"HOST.\nDiscard, bully Hercul... |
3,910 | 1517_act_ii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mistress Page reads her letter from Falstaff aloud, quoting sections where he declares that their affinity must lie in their equally advanced age, sense of merriment, and love of wine. She's astonished that such a fat old knight would try to play the young gallant, considering he barely knows her. She wonders how she c... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.",
"Before PAGE'S house",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nWhat! have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty,\nand am I now a subject for them? Let me see.",
"'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason\n for his precisian, he admits h... |
3,936 | 1517_act_2,_scenes_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the Garter Inn, Falstaff tells Pistol that he won't lend him any money. Falstaff says he's already done enough for Pistol by bailing him out of trouble, and still Pistol won't deliver Falstaff's letters. He tells Pistol that he gets cash by lying and cheating, while Pistol is poor because he insists on maintaining s... | [
"SCENE 2.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nI will not lend thee a penny.",
"PISTOL.\nWhy then, the world's mine oyster,\nWhich I with sword will open.\nI will retort the sum in equipage.",
"FALSTAFF.\nNot a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my counte... |
3,937 | 1517_act_3,_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Evans wanders through the fields with Simple, looking for Caius but unable to find him, thanks to Simple's misdirection. He sends Simple off to find Caius and sits down to read his book of poems and be melancholy. Simple reappears and leads Evans towards Shallow, Slender, and Page. Shallow says that Caius is nearby, an... | [
"ACT III SCENE 1.",
"A field near Frogmore.",
"[Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE.]",
"EVANS.\nI pray you now, good Master Slender's serving-man, and friend\nSimple by your name, which way have you looked for Master Caius,\nthat calls himself doctor of physic?",
"SIMPLE.\nMarry, sir, the pittie-ward, the par... |
3,931 | 1517_act_3,_scenes_4-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fenton and Anne Page meet outside her house. He tells her that her father doesn't favor him as a candidate for marriage, because, though Fenton is high-born, he has no money, and Anne's father suspects that he only wants Anne's substantial dowry. He admits that Page's wealth first drew him to Anne, but in wooing her, h... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter FENTON, ANNE PAGE, and MISTRESS QUICKLY. MISTRESS QUICKLY\nstands apart.]",
"FENTON.\nI see I cannot get thy father's love;\nTherefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.",
"ANNE.\nAlas! how then?",
"FENTON.\nWhy, thou must be thyself.\nHe doth object, I am to... |
3,938 | 1517_act_4,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mistress Page, Mistress Quickly, and William Page enter. The two women wonder if Falstaff has arrived at Mistress Ford's yet, and Mistress Page says she must just take her son to school. Evans, the schoolteacher, enters and says he has cancelled school that day. Mistress Page says that her husband has said their son ha... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The street.",
"[Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and WILLIAM.]",
"MRS. PAGE.\nIs he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?",
"QUICKLY.\nSure he is by this; or will be presently; but truly he is very\ncourageous mad about his throwing into the water. Mistress Ford\ndesires you to... |
3,939 | 1517_act_4,_scenes_3-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Garter Inn, Bardolph asks the Host if the German guests may borrow three of the Host's horses, because they are on their way to court to meet their Duke. The Host agrees reluctantly. At Ford's house, Ford, Page, Mistress Ford, Mistress Page, and Evans talk. The women have told their husbands about their plots ag... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter HOST and BARDOLPH.]",
"BARDOLPH.\nSir, the Germans desire to have three of your horses; the Duke\nhimself will be to-morrow at court, and they are going to meet him.",
"HOST.\nWhat duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear not of him in\nthe court. Let me... |
3,933 | 1517_act_5,_scenes_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff and Mistress Quickly talk at the Garter Inn. He says he'll keep his third appointment with Mistress Ford, but he hopes that things will work out this time. Quickly departs to prepare, and Ford, in disguise as Brooke, enters. Falstaff tells Brooke that things will be decided that evening in the park at midnight... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nPrithee, no more prattling; go: I'll hold. This is the third time;\nI hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away! go. They say there is\ndivinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!",
... |
3,934 | 1517_act_1_scene_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Merry Wives of Windsor begins with Justice Shallow complaining to Sir Hugh Evans that he has been abused by Falstaff. Shallow's cousin Slender backs him up, and Evans agrees to take up the matter on Shallow's behalf. . Evans then changes the subject, and mentions Anne Page, a girl of marriageable age. Anne has inhe... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.",
"Windsor. Before PAGE'S house.",
"[Enter JUSTICE SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS.]",
"SHALLOW.\nSir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star Chamber matter\nof it; if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not\nabuse Robert Shallow, esquire.",
"SLENDER.\nIn the county of Glouce... |
3,908 | 1517_act_1_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Falstaff tells the Host that he must get rid of some of his hangers-on, since his expenses are too high. The Host says he will give Bardolph a job as a tapster, serving liquor. Bardolph likes this idea, saying he has wanted such a life. Falstaff is pleased to get rid of him. Falstaff then confides to Pistol and Nym tha... | [
"SCENE 3.",
"A room in the Garter Inn.",
"[Enter FALSTAFF, HOST, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL, and ROBIN.]",
"FALSTAFF.\nMine host of the Garter!",
"HOST.\nWhat says my bully rook? Speak scholarly and wisely.",
"FALSTAFF.\nTruly, mine host, I must turn away some of my followers.",
"HOST.\nDiscard, bully Hercul... |
3,909 | 1517_act_1_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Dr. Caius's house, Mistress Quickly has received the letter from Evans, and she questions Simple about who Slender is, as she is having difficulty remembering him. She then instructs him to tell Evans that she will do what she can to further Slender's cause with Anne Page. . Dr. Caius's servant John Rugby warns Quic... | [
"SCENE 4.",
"A room in DOCTOR CAIUS'S house.",
"[Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, and SIMPLE.]",
"QUICKLY.\nWhat, John Rugby!",
"[Enter RUGBY.]",
"I pray thee go to the casement, and see if you can see my master,\nMaster Doctor Caius, coming: if he do, i' faith, and find anybody\nin the house, here will be an old ... |
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