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3,910 | 1517_act_2_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Page reads the love letter from Falstaff. She is outraged, especially on account of the fact that she has only met Falstaff a couple of times. She wants revenge on him for writing such a letter. . Mrs. Ford then enters. She is agitated and asks for Mrs. Page's advice. She has, of course, just read the letter that ... | [
"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. | Pistol asks Falstaff to lend him money, but Falstaff refuses. He says he has had enough of deflecting the demands of Pistol's creditors and swearing to them that Pistol is a reliable man. He is still annoyed by Pistol's refusal to deliver his letter, and this prompts Pistol to relent. . Mistress Quickly enters, and inf... | [
"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... |
3,940 | 1517_act_2_scene_3;_act_3_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a field near Windsor, Dr. Caius is angry that Evans has not shown up for the duel. Page, Shallow, Slender and the Host enter, telling Caius that they have come to see the duel, even though they know that Evans has been directed to another place, the other side of town. Caius claims Evans is a coward. He still wants ... | [
"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 ... |
3,914 | 1517_act_3_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ford encounters Mrs. Page with Falstaff's page, Robin, which leads Ford to jump to conclusions and mock the absent Page for his stupidity in not suspecting his wife. He vows that he will torture his wife, expose Mrs. Page and show what a fool Page is. He resolves to go to his own house when he knows Falstaff will be th... | [
"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. | At Ford's house, Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page rehearse their plot to dump Falstaff in a dirty laundry basket and empty it in a muddy ditch on the banks of the River Thames. . Falstaff enters and declares his love for Mrs. Ford. Mrs. Ford goes along with him, replying that she loves him too. But then, as rehearsed, Robin ent... | [
"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. | Fenton tells Anne Page that he is discouraged in his attempt to win her hand, because her father is refusing to support him. He says that at first he courted Anne because her father was wealthy, but he has since come to see that she is worth more than any amount of gold. Anne tells him not to give up, but to continue t... | [
"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. | Falstaff tells Bardolph to get him some wine and a piece of toast. He speaks with disgust of his ordeal in being tossed into the river. Quickly enters, and Falstaff responds coldly to her. Quickly then explains that Mrs. Ford has told her that the men made a mistake in throwing the basket into the river. It was not her... | [
"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 ... |
3,938 | 1517_act_4_scene_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 1-2 . Scene 1 is a short scene which is a digression from the main plot. Evans tries to instruct Mrs. Page's son William in Latin grammar. . In scene 2, Falstaff speaks to Mrs. Ford in Ford's house. But he has only just begun his latest attempt at seduction before Mrs. Page rushes in. Falstaff hides in another ro... | [
"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... |
3,941 | 1517_act_4_scene_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 3-4 . In scene 3, Bardolph tells the Host that the Germans who have been staying at the Garter Inn need to have three of his horses, to meet the Duke at court. The Host agrees, but says he will make them pay for the horses. . In scene 4, Ford, who has been shown the letters Falstaff wrote and how the women respon... | [
"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_act_4_scene_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 5-6 . At the Garter Inn, Simple is looking for the fat woman of Brainford. She is also known as a wise woman, and he has a question to ask her from Slender. Simple asks to see Falstaff, because he has caught sight of him still in his disguise and thinks that the woman is in Falstaff's room. After Falstaff tells t... | [
"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_act_5_scene_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 1-5 . Falstaff has agreed to go to the wood, hoping this will be third time lucky. Ford, disguised as Brook, enters, and Falstaff tells him to go to the forest at midnight. He tells Brook about his misadventure disguised as the old woman of Brainford, disparages Ford and promises vengeance on him, and promises th... | [
"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!",
... |
3,942 | 35330_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Ghost of Andrea enters the scene to deliver a monologue and put forth the premises of the play. When he was alive, the Ghost states, he served as a courtier in the Spanish court. In the prime of his youth he engaged in a secret love affair with the Duke of Castile's daughter, Bellimperia. Spain's war with Portugal,... | [
"[The Spanish Court]",
"Enter SPANISH KING, GENERAL, CASTILLE, HIERONIMO.",
"KING. Now say, lord general: how fares our camp?",
"GEN. All well, my sovereign liege, except some few\n That are deceas'd by fortune of the war.",
"KING. But what portends thy cheerful countenance\n And posting to our pre... |
3,943 | 35330_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King of Spain enters with his brother the Duke of Castile, the Marshall Hieronimo, and a General. The King asks for a battle report, and the General declares that Spain achieved victory with little loss to itself. Portugal will honor Spain and its tribute. The King then requests a more detailed account of the milit... | [
"[Portugal: the VICEROY'S palace.]",
"Enter VICEROY, ALEXANDRO, VILLUPPO.",
"VICE. Is our ambassador dispatch'd for Spain?",
"ALEX. Two days, my liege, are past since his depart.",
"VICE. And tribute payment gone along with him?",
"ALEX. Aye, my good lord.",
"VICE. Then rest we here a-while in our... |
3,944 | 35330_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts to Portugal, where the Viceroy laments his misfortune in front of two noblemen, Alexandro and Villuppo. After confirming that an ambassador has been sent to Spain with the required tribute, the Viceroy prostrates himself on the ground. This way, he declares, his fortunes can no fall no further. The Vic... | [
"[Spain: the palace]",
"Enter HORATIO and BEL-IMPERIA.",
"BEL. Signior Horatio, this is the place and hour\n Wherein I must entreat thee to relate\n The circumstance of Don Andrea's death,\n Who living was my garland's sweetest flower,\n And in his death hath buried my delights.",
"HOR. For love ... |
3,945 | 35330_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lorenzo tries to comfort Balthazar with regards to Bellimperia, suggesting that in due time she will come to like the Portuguese prince. Balthazar expresses his unconsoled spirit in a short pessimistic monologue. Lorenzo assures him that they will find out the reason behind Bellimperia's coldness; he has already formul... | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter LORENZO and BALTHAZAR.",
"LORENZO. My lord, though Bel-imperia seem thus coy,\n Let reason hold you in your wonted joy:\n In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,\n In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,\n In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,\n In ... |
3,946 | 35330_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Horatio and Bellimperia enter the scene. Pedringano, pointing out the lovers for Lorenzo and Balthazar, places the two princes in hiding. Horatio wonders why, their love now made so clear, Bellimperia shows signs of "inward languishments. Bellimperia responds through an extended metaphor, comparing her heart to a saili... | [
"[The Spanish court.]",
"Enter the KING OF SPAIN, PORTINGAL\n AMBASSADOR, DON CIPRIAN, &c.",
"KING. Brother of Castille, to the prince's love\n What says your daughter Bel-imperia?",
"CIP. Although she coy it, as becomes her kind,\n And yet dissemble that she loves the prince,\n I do... |
3,947 | 35330_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The King of Spain enters with the Duke of Castile and the Portuguese ambassador. The King asks the Duke what Bellimperia thinks of Balthazar. The Duke responds that while his daughter disclaims any love for the Portuguese prince at the moment, she will in time heed his advice - "Which is to love him, or forgo love. The... | [
"[HORATIO's garden.]",
"Enter HORATIO, BEL-IMPERIA, and PEDRINGANO.",
"HOR. Now that the night begins with sable wings\n To over-cloud the brightness of the sun,\n And that in darkness pleasures may be done,\n Come, Bel-imperia, let us to the bower,\n And there is safety pass a pleasant hour.",
"... |
3,948 | 35330_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Portugal, the Viceroy laments his fate - thrown from the heights of glory to the depths of despair, and by hate deprived of a son. A nobleman remarks that he never would have suspected hate in Alexandro's heart. The "countenance" of words, it seems, cannot be trusted. Villuppo continues to incriminate Alexandro but ... | [
"[The Portuguese court.]",
"Enter VICEROY OF PORTINGAL, NOBLES, ALEXANDRO, VILLUPPO.",
"VICEROY. Infortunate condition of kings,\n Seated amidst so many helpless doubts!\n First, we are plac'd upon extremest height,\n And oft supplanted with exceeding hate,\n But ever subject to the wheel of chance... |
3,949 | 35330_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hieronimo enters the scene, still bemoaning his son's death in a series of apostrophes. He cries to the heavens for justice in form of revenge and continues his monologue until a letter suddenly falls from the sky. The letter is from Bellimperia - written in blood for want of ink - and informs Hieronimo that Balthazar ... | [
"[Spain: near the DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO.",
"HIERO. Oh eyes! no eyes but fountains fraught with tears;\n Oh life! no life, but lively form of death;\n Oh world! no world, but mass of public wrongs,\n Confus'd and fill'd with murder and misdeeds;\n Oh sacred heav'ns, if this unhallow'd de... |
3,950 | 35330_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pedringano enters with a pistol in his hand. He expresses his qualms about the prospect of shooting Serberine but is comforted by the thought of his reward. Also reassuring is the belief that, should he be captured, Lorenzo will protect him. Three guards arrive in the meantime, wondering why they have been commanded to... | [
"[San Luigi's Park.]",
"Enter PEDRINGANO with a pistol.",
"PED. Now, Pedringano, bid thy pistol hold;\n And hold on, Fortune! Once more favour me!\n Give but success to mine attempting spirit,\n And let me shift for taking of mine aim.\n Here is the gold! This is the gold propos'd!\n It is no ... |
3,951 | 35330_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The following morning, Lorenzo confesses his fears to Balthazar: he believes that their crime has been betrayed to Hieronimo. A page enters to announce that Serberine has been killed by Pedringano. Balthazar is outraged, and Lorenzo advises him to take due vengeance by complaining to the King of Spain. Balthazar rushes... | [
"[The DUKE's castle]",
"Enter LORENZO and BALTHAZAR.",
"BAL. How now, my lord? what makes you rise so soon?",
"LOR. Fear of preventing our mishaps too late.",
"BAL. What mischief is it that we not mistrust?",
"LOR. Our greatest ills we least mistrust, my lord,\n And unexpected harms do hurt us most... |
3,952 | 35330_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the way to find Pedringano in prison, the page is overcome with curiosity and opens the box - only to find nothing inside. He realizes that Lorenzo intends to trick Pedringano. For fear of being hanged himself, however, the page cannot act on his sympathy | [
"[A street.]",
"Enter BOY with the box.",
"[BOY.] My master hath forbidden me to look in this box, and, by\nmy troth, 'tis likely, if he had not warned me, I should not have had so\nmuch idle time; for we men-kind in our minority are like women in\ntheir uncertainty; that they are most forbidden, they will soo... |
3,953 | 35330_act_3,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hieronimo remarks on the irony of his profession as Marshall: why should "neither gods nor men be just" to he who judges other men justly. Officers enter with Pedringano, letter in hand, followed by Lorenzo's page. After a series of exchanges, highly impudent on Pedringano's part , Pedringano is taken away by the hangm... | [
"[The court of justice.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO and the DEPUTY.",
"HIERO. Thus must we toil in others men's extremes\n That know not how to remedy our own,\n And do them justice, when unjustly we\n For all our wrongs can compass no redress.\n But shall I never live to see the day\n That I may come b... |
3,954 | 35330_act_3,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hieronimo is once again alone, deploring the weight of his sufferance. His "tortured soul" has so far has been unable to reach the "empyreal heights" of justice and revenge. The hangman enters frantically with a letter in hand, claiming that they should not have killed Pedringano. Hieronimo sends him away with a promis... | [
"[HIERONIMO's house.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO.",
"HIER. Where shall I run to breath abroad my woes,--\n My woes whose weight hath wearied the earth,\n Or mine exclaims that have surcharg'd the air\n With ceaseless plaints for my deceased son?\n The blust'ring winds, conspiring with my words,\n At my ... |
3,955 | 35330_act_3,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Hieronimo's home, Isabella "runs lunatic" despite the maid's best efforts to comfort her. It seems that Horatio's death, combined with the mystery of his murderers, has forced her tormented soul into a frenzy | [
"[HIERONIMO's house.]",
"Enter ISABELL and her MAID.",
"ISA. So that you say this herb will purge the eyes,\n And this the head? Ah! but none of them will purge the\n heart!\n No, there's no medicine left for my disease,\n Nor any physic to recure the dead.",
"She runs lunatic.",
"Horatio!... |
3,956 | 35330_act_3,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bellimperia sits at a window, bemoaning her powerless situation in captivity. She apostrophizes Hieronimo and Andrea before resolving to wait patiently for her release. The custodian Christophil enters to fetch her | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"BEL-IMPERIA at a window.",
"BEL. What means this outrage that is offer'd me?\n Why am I thus sequester'd from the court?\n No notice? shall I not know the cause\n Of these my secret and suspicious ills?\n Accursed brother! unkind murderer!\n Why bend'st thou thus thy m... |
3,957 | 35330_act_3,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lorenzo enters with Balthazar and confirms Pedringano's death with his page. Deeming the affair to have "o'erblown," Lorenzo decides to set his sister free. He advises Balthazar to "deal cunningly" with Bellimperia just as she arrives, full of fury and contempt. Lorenzo claims that he merely "sought to save honour and ... | [
"[A room in the DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter LORENZO, BALTHAZAR and the PAGE.",
"LOR. Boy, talk no further; thus far things go well.\n Thou art assur'd that thou sawest him dead?",
"PAGE. Or else, my lord, I live not.",
"LOR. That's enough.\n As for this resolution at his end,\n Leav... |
3,958 | 35330_act_3,_scenes_11-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two Portuguese men enter in search of the Duke of Castile. Hieronimo points out the correct house for them, whereupon it becomes clear that the two men are actually looking for Lorenzo. Hieronimo suddenly embarks on a rant about finding "Despair and Death" on the left-hand path, at the end of which the men will find Lo... | [
"[A street.]",
"Enter two PORTINGALES, and HIERONIMO\n meets them.",
"I PORT. By your leave, sir.",
"HIERO. Good leave have you; nay, I pray you go,\n For I'll leave you, if you can leave me so.",
"II PORT. Pray you, which is the next way to my lord\n the duke's?",
"HIERO. The nex... |
3,959 | 35330_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bellimperia berates Hieronimo for his inaction thus far: why has he neglected to avenge his son's murder? Hieronimo excuses himself, stating that he was previously unsure as to whether Bellimperia's letter contained the truth. For him, Bellimperia's desire for revenge now represents a sign from heaven: "all the saints ... | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter BEL-IMPERIA and HIERONIMO.",
"BEL-IMPERIA. Is this the love thou bear'st Horatio? Is this the kindness that thou counterfeit'st,\n Are these the fruits of thine incessant tears? Hieronimo, are these thy passions,\n Thy protestations and thy deep laments,\n That thou wert ... |
3,942 | 35330_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first scene opens with the ghost of newly dead Don Andrea telling the story of his life and death directly to the audience. He is accompanied by Revenge . He tells us that he was a member of the Spanish royal court who was having a love affair with the very beautiful Bel-Imperia before getting killed in a war with ... | [
"[The Spanish Court]",
"Enter SPANISH KING, GENERAL, CASTILLE, HIERONIMO.",
"KING. Now say, lord general: how fares our camp?",
"GEN. All well, my sovereign liege, except some few\n That are deceas'd by fortune of the war.",
"KING. But what portends thy cheerful countenance\n And posting to our pre... |
3,943 | 35330_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens with the Spanish king, a general, the Duke of Castile, and Hieronimo discussing the outcome of the deciding battle in the war between Spain and Portugal. The general tells everyone that Spain has won the war. In the process, he gives some great detail on a bunch of bloody limbs that were all over the gr... | [
"[Portugal: the VICEROY'S palace.]",
"Enter VICEROY, ALEXANDRO, VILLUPPO.",
"VICE. Is our ambassador dispatch'd for Spain?",
"ALEX. Two days, my liege, are past since his depart.",
"VICE. And tribute payment gone along with him?",
"ALEX. Aye, my good lord.",
"VICE. Then rest we here a-while in our... |
3,944 | 35330_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Okay, now we get into the subplot for the first time. So, now we're back in Portugal with losers of the war. And losing really has a negative effect on everyone's mood. The viceroy is in an especially bad mood. The viceroy has to pay tribute money to Spain after the big loss. That's right, not only do people die in the... | [
"[Spain: the palace]",
"Enter HORATIO and BEL-IMPERIA.",
"BEL. Signior Horatio, this is the place and hour\n Wherein I must entreat thee to relate\n The circumstance of Don Andrea's death,\n Who living was my garland's sweetest flower,\n And in his death hath buried my delights.",
"HOR. For love ... |
3,945 | 35330_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens with Balthazar moping about Bel-Imperia denying his best pick-up lines. Lorenzo tries to assure Balthazar that his sister will eventually give in if he just remains patient, but he does admit that it's possible that she loves another knight. Lorenzo is a forward thinking baddie, so he's got a plan if Be... | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter LORENZO and BALTHAZAR.",
"LORENZO. My lord, though Bel-imperia seem thus coy,\n Let reason hold you in your wonted joy:\n In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,\n In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure,\n In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak,\n In ... |
3,960 | 35330_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is one of those awesome Renaissance drama scenes where spying comes into play. Overheard conversations are a great convention for creating intrigue and moving plots along. So, as Pedringano, Lorenzo, and Balthazar hide behind a potted plant or something, Bel-Imperia and Horatio give a public display of affection w... | [
"[The Duke's Castle]",
"Enter HORATIO and BEL-IMPERIA.",
"HOR. Now, madame, since by favour of your love\n Our hidden smoke is turn'd to open flame,\n And that with looks and words we feed our thought,--\n Two chief contents where more cannot be had,--\n Thus in the midst of love's fair blandishmen... |
3,946 | 35330_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Apparently, the King of Spain is also really into the idea of marrying Bel-Imperia to Balthazar. He calls his brother, The Duke of Castile, to his digs to see if Bel-Imperia is inclined to marry Balthazar. The Duke of Castile is all, "that silly girl will come along soon enough, strong-willed or not." He adds that she'... | [
"[The Spanish court.]",
"Enter the KING OF SPAIN, PORTINGAL\n AMBASSADOR, DON CIPRIAN, &c.",
"KING. Brother of Castille, to the prince's love\n What says your daughter Bel-imperia?",
"CIP. Although she coy it, as becomes her kind,\n And yet dissemble that she loves the prince,\n I do... |
3,947 | 35330_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Bel-Imperia and Horatio are about to make secret kissy face in the garden. And they ask Pedringano to stand guard--whoops. In good villainous form, Pedringano creeps out the audience by speaking directly to them: "Instead of watching I'll deserve more gold by fetching Don Lorenzo to this match" . Bel-Imperia... | [
"[HORATIO's garden.]",
"Enter HORATIO, BEL-IMPERIA, and PEDRINGANO.",
"HOR. Now that the night begins with sable wings\n To over-cloud the brightness of the sun,\n And that in darkness pleasures may be done,\n Come, Bel-imperia, let us to the bower,\n And there is safety pass a pleasant hour.",
"... |
3,948 | 35330_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Okay, now we're back in Portugal to check back in on our subplot. The Viceroy is still being a crybaby. He spends his time gloomily complaining about how badly Fortune has dealt with him, the hardships of ruling a nation, and his son's supposed death. You of course remember that Villupo told the viceroy that Alexandro ... | [
"[The Portuguese court.]",
"Enter VICEROY OF PORTINGAL, NOBLES, ALEXANDRO, VILLUPPO.",
"VICEROY. Infortunate condition of kings,\n Seated amidst so many helpless doubts!\n First, we are plac'd upon extremest height,\n And oft supplanted with exceeding hate,\n But ever subject to the wheel of chance... |
3,949 | 35330_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hieronimo enters alone and delivers a serious bummer of a soliloquy. His speech is all about not getting justice, and it's heavily ironic because he is supposed to be the dude dishing out justice in Spain. As he soliloquizes, a letter drops magically from the sky . But we know that Bel-Imperia drops the letter. Hieroni... | [
"[Spain: near the DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO.",
"HIERO. Oh eyes! no eyes but fountains fraught with tears;\n Oh life! no life, but lively form of death;\n Oh world! no world, but mass of public wrongs,\n Confus'd and fill'd with murder and misdeeds;\n Oh sacred heav'ns, if this unhallow'd de... |
3,950 | 35330_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene shows Lorenzo's latest plan in action. Pedringano enters the scene talking to himself about why he does what he does--he's in it for the dolla, dolla bills, y'all. Ol' clueless Serberine comes along thinking he's just gonna hang with his fellow murderer. Instead, Pedringano creeps up on him with a pistol. Ba... | [
"[San Luigi's Park.]",
"Enter PEDRINGANO with a pistol.",
"PED. Now, Pedringano, bid thy pistol hold;\n And hold on, Fortune! Once more favour me!\n Give but success to mine attempting spirit,\n And let me shift for taking of mine aim.\n Here is the gold! This is the gold propos'd!\n It is no ... |
3,951 | 35330_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lorenzo has been taking care off all the bad guy stuff on his own, so he goes to tell Balthazar about how he is in the process of offing their henchmen. While he's doing this, a messenger cruises up and says that Serberine was murdered by Pedringano, to which Lorenzo responds with his best, "Oh my, how shocking!" Then ... | [
"[The DUKE's castle]",
"Enter LORENZO and BALTHAZAR.",
"BAL. How now, my lord? what makes you rise so soon?",
"LOR. Fear of preventing our mishaps too late.",
"BAL. What mischief is it that we not mistrust?",
"LOR. Our greatest ills we least mistrust, my lord,\n And unexpected harms do hurt us most... |
3,952 | 35330_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hieronimo is still talking sad to himself . In his latest sad speech, he explores how jacked up it is to bring the law down on others while not getting any justice for his own family. But we've got to respect his dilemma--how does one successfully convict a pair of princes with nothing but a bloody letter that fell fro... | [
"[A street.]",
"Enter BOY with the box.",
"[BOY.] My master hath forbidden me to look in this box, and, by\nmy troth, 'tis likely, if he had not warned me, I should not have had so\nmuch idle time; for we men-kind in our minority are like women in\ntheir uncertainty; that they are most forbidden, they will soo... |
3,954 | 35330_act_3,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the hanging, the executioner finds a letter on the body of Pedringano, which he promptly delivers to Hieronimo. The letter is addressed to Lorenzo from Pedringano, and it spells out precisely how the servant was working for Lorenzo and Balthazar as he and Serberine killed Horatio. Hieronimo finally has the eviden... | [
"[HIERONIMO's house.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO.",
"HIER. Where shall I run to breath abroad my woes,--\n My woes whose weight hath wearied the earth,\n Or mine exclaims that have surcharg'd the air\n With ceaseless plaints for my deceased son?\n The blust'ring winds, conspiring with my words,\n At my ... |
3,955 | 35330_act_3,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Remember Hieronimo's wife, Isabella? Well, we finally check back in on her in this brief scene, and things could certainly be better. Isabella's maid tries to cheer her up, but she is seriously freaking out. She's way too grieved to receive comfort, and clearly in a downward spiral. | [
"[HIERONIMO's house.]",
"Enter ISABELL and her MAID.",
"ISA. So that you say this herb will purge the eyes,\n And this the head? Ah! but none of them will purge the\n heart!\n No, there's no medicine left for my disease,\n Nor any physic to recure the dead.",
"She runs lunatic.",
"Horatio!... |
3,956 | 35330_act_3,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get another brief scene in which Bel-Imperia complains about her imprisonment and delayed justice. It was nice of Thomas Kyd to write two quick scenes to remind us that there are still important women in the play. Gee, thanks. | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"BEL-IMPERIA at a window.",
"BEL. What means this outrage that is offer'd me?\n Why am I thus sequester'd from the court?\n No notice? shall I not know the cause\n Of these my secret and suspicious ills?\n Accursed brother! unkind murderer!\n Why bend'st thou thus thy m... |
3,957 | 35330_act_3,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our sadistic little messenger boy with the empty box comes back to Lorenzo and Balthazar to tell them that Pedringano is dead. Given the happy news, Lorenzo sends the messenger to inform the jailor to free Bel-Imperia. After getting freed, Bel-Imperia storms angrily on the scene. But Lorenzo tells her that he held her ... | [
"[A room in the DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter LORENZO, BALTHAZAR and the PAGE.",
"LOR. Boy, talk no further; thus far things go well.\n Thou art assur'd that thou sawest him dead?",
"PAGE. Or else, my lord, I live not.",
"LOR. That's enough.\n As for this resolution at his end,\n Leav... |
3,961 | 35330_act_3,_scene_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two random Portuguese dudes question Hieronimo about the whereabouts of the Duke of Castile , but Hieronimo only gives evasive answers. But he does manage to talk in coded language about the injustice of the Spanish court. And while his crazy talk makes sense to the audience, the Portuguese guys just think he's nuts. F... | [
"[A street.]",
"Enter two PORTINGALES, and HIERONIMO\n meets them.",
"I PORT. By your leave, sir.",
"HIERO. Good leave have you; nay, I pray you go,\n For I'll leave you, if you can leave me so.",
"II PORT. Pray you, which is the next way to my lord\n the duke's?",
"HIERO. The nex... |
3,962 | 35330_act_3,_scene_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | And the similarities between The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet continue as Hieronimo enters the scene to contemplate suicide with a dagger in one hand and a rope in the other. Apparently, he hasn't gotten anywhere while trying to tell the king what's been going down. Ultimately, Hieronimo decides to stay attached to his "... | [
"[The Spanish court.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO with a ponyard in one hand,\n and a rope in the other.",
"HIERO. Now, sir, perhaps I come to see the king,\n The king sees me, and fain would hear my suit:\n Why, is this not a strange and seld-seen thing\n That standers-by with toys should strike... |
3,963 | 35330_act_3,_scene_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Suffice it to say that Hieronimo has now achieved a new level of rage. He delivers his most powerful soliloquy on revenge, which begins impressively with a tough guy Latin phrase: "Vindicta mihi!" . The phrase means "vengeance is mine," but doesn't the Latin phrasing make it sound super bad? He also delivers another La... | [
"[HIERONIMO's house.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO with a book in his hand.",
"[HIERO.] Vindicta mihi. Aye, heav'n will be reveng'd of every ill,\n Nor will they suffer murder unrepaid! Then stay, Hieronimo, attend their will;\n For mortal men may not appoint their time. Per scelus semper tutum est sceleribus iter... |
3,964 | 35330_act_3,_scene_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our emotionally driven and unpredictably rash friend the viceroy has finally made it to Spain for the wedding. The recently warring kings hug it out as they celebrate new family ties between Spain and Portugal. After the mighty rulers depart, the Duke of Castile approaches Lorenzo to warn him not to do anything that mi... | [
"[The Spanish court.]",
"Enter KING OF SPAIN, the DUKE, VICEROY, and\n LORENZO, BALTHAZAR, DON PEDRO, and BEL-IMPERIA.",
"KING. Go, brother, 'tis the Duke of Castile's cause;\n Salute the viceroy in our name.",
"CASTILE. I go.",
"VICE. Go forth, Don Pedro, for thy ne... |
3,965 | 35330_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens with Bel-Imperia giving Hieronimo a hard time for slacking in his revenge duties. She is dismayed that her letter was not enough to inspire him into action. Hieronimo says something like, "my bad, but I didn't know if I could trust the letter." And she's probably thinking, "good thing I wrote the letter... | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter BEL-IMPERIA and HIERONIMO.",
"BEL-IMPERIA. Is this the love thou bear'st Horatio? Is this the kindness that thou counterfeit'st,\n Are these the fruits of thine incessant tears? Hieronimo, are these thy passions,\n Thy protestations and thy deep laments,\n That thou wert ... |
3,966 | 35330_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Our attention is next brought back to Hieronimo's wife, Isabella. She is utterly overcome with grief as she soliloquizes at the scene of her son's murder. In her passion, she cuts down every single tree in the bower where her son was hanged. She curses the place to be ever filled with snakes and all kinds of slimy thin... | [
"[HIERONIMO's garden.]",
"Enter ISABELLA with a weapon.",
"[ISA.] Tell me no more! O monstrous homicides!\n Since neither piety nor pity moves\n The king to justice or compassion,\n I will revenge myself upon this place,\n Where thus they murder'd my beloved son.",
"She cuts down the arbour.",
... |
3,967 | 35330_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This very brief scene shows Hieronimo preparing the stage for his play, making his last vows to execute his revenge, and lamenting his wife's suicide. | [
"[The DUKE's castle.]",
"Enter HIERONIMO; he knocks up the curtain.\n Enter the DUKE OF CASTILE.",
"CAS. How now, Hieronimo? where's your fellows,\n That you take all this pain?",
"HIERO. O sir, it is for the author's credit\n To look that all things may go well.\n But, good my lord... |
3,968 | 208_part_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Open scene on Vevay: a "little town" in Switzerland that serves as a fancy getaway spot for rich and fabulous Americans. It's more tourist trap than hidden gem but is still trendy and expensive. Think St. Bart's without the rap stars. Les Trois Couronnes is the name of the upscale inn where Frederick Winterbourne, our ... | [
"PART I",
"At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly\ncomfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment\nof tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will\nremember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that\nit behooves ... |
3,969 | 208_part_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's winter, and Winterbourne shows up to stay with his aunt, who's now in Rome. Old Mrs. Costello is back at Daisy-bashing as soon as Winterbourne arrives, talking about how Daisy's been going around with a lot of mustachioed Italians. Clearly, for Mrs. Costello, this adds to their sketchiness factor. Winterbourne dec... | [
"PART II",
"Winterbourne, who had returned to Geneva the day after his excursion\nto Chillon, went to Rome toward the end of January. His aunt had been\nestablished there for several weeks, and he had received a couple of\nletters from her. \"Those people you were so devoted to last summer at\nVevey have turned u... |
3,968 | 208_part_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Daisy Miller begins at the fashionable resort town of Vevey, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The narrator describes the bustling summer resort hotel of Trois Couronnes. The narrator mentions that Russian princesses sit in the garden, and also that American travelers are numerous in the summer months. He also mentions t... | [
"PART I",
"At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly\ncomfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment\nof tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will\nremember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake--a lake that\nit behooves ... |
3,969 | 208_part_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winterbourne asks his aunt, Mrs. Costello, about the Miller family. The aunt says that she has seen them and heard things about them, and that she has avoided them. Winterbourne mentions a few things about his aunt, such as her apparently strong influence in Washington, and her minute understanding of the complex socia... | [
"PART II",
"Winterbourne, who had returned to Geneva the day after his excursion\nto Chillon, went to Rome toward the end of January. His aunt had been\nestablished there for several weeks, and he had received a couple of\nletters from her. \"Those people you were so devoted to last summer at\nVevey have turned u... |
3,970 | 21700_dedication | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Robert Southey and William Wordsworth, who have both sold themselves to the king, would like to be considered the greatest poets of the age. Posterity will decide whether they or Walter Scott, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Moore, and George Crabbe will enjoy the largest share of fame. As for Byron, he is not c... | [
"DEDICATION",
"Bob Southey! You're a poet, poet laureate,\n And representative of all the race.\n Although 'tis true that you turned out a Tory at\n Last, yours has lately been a common case.\n And now my epic renegade, what are ye at\n With all the lakers, in and out of place?\n A n... |
3,971 | 21700_canto_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The author begins by saying that since his own age cannot supply a suitable hero for his poem, he will use an old friend, Don Juan. Don Juan was born in Seville, Spain. His parents are Don Jose and Donna Inez. Donna Inez is learned and has a good memory. Her favorite science is mathematics. She has a smattering of Gree... | [
"CANTO THE FIRST",
"I want a hero: an uncommon want,\n When every year and month sends forth a new one,\n Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,\n The age discovers he is not the true one;\n Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,\n I 'll therefore take our ancient friend Don J... |
3,972 | 21700_canto_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Cadiz, Spain, Juan boards the ship Trinidada bound for Leghorn, Italy, where he is to visit relatives settled there. His suite consists of three servants and a tutor. As Juan has no experience on shipboard, he promptly becomes seasick. Hardly has the ship set sail when a storm blows up. Even though the crew takes in... | [
"CANTO THE SECOND.",
"O ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations,\n Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,\n I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,\n It mends their morals, never mind the pain:\n The best of mothers and of educations\n In Juan's case were but employ'd in vain,... |
3,973 | 21700_canto_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After several stanzas on the subject of love, in which he concludes that love and marriage are incompatible, Byron returns to Haidee and Juan. Her father's long-delayed return makes her more imprudent. Having taken care of all his business, Lambro returns to his island port, which is on the opposite side of the island ... | [
"CANTO THE THIRD.",
"Hail, Muse! et cetera.--We left Juan sleeping,\n Pillow'd upon a fair and happy breast,\n And watch'd by eyes that never yet knew weeping,\n And loved by a young heart, too deeply blest\n To feel the poison through her spirit creeping,\n Or know who rested there, a f... |
3,974 | 21700_canto_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After seven stanzas in which he complains of the difficulty of making a beginning in poetry; confesses that his imagination is weakening; that the sad truth turns what was once romantic to burlesque ; admits that some have accused him of designs against "the creed and morals of the land"; and claims that his only inten... | [
"CANTO THE FOURTH.",
"Nothing so difficult as a beginning\n In poesy, unless perhaps the end;\n For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning\n The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend,\n Like Lucifer when hurl'd from heaven for sinning;\n Our sin the same, and hard as his to mend,\n ... |
3,975 | 21700_canto_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the slave market of Constantinople, Don Juan meets Johnson, an Englishman who had been a mercenary in the Russian army and who had been wounded and captured by the Turks. Johnson freely tells Juan about his wife trouble, just as Byron would tell casual visitors about his own marital troubles. Johnson's first wife ha... | [
"CANTO THE FIFTH.",
"When amatory poets sing their loves\n In liquid lines mellifluously bland,\n And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves,\n They little think what mischief is in hand;\n The greater their success the worse it proves,\n As Ovid's verse may give to understand;\n ... |
3,976 | 21700_canto_vi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Canto VI is a continuation of the story of Juan in the harem. Since there is no bed available for Juan at the moment, the "Mother of the Maids," who is in charge of the harem, decides that "Juanna" will have to share the bed of Dudji, a pretty odalisque of seventeen. In the middle of the night, when all the harem is as... | [
"CANTO THE SIXTH.",
"'There is a tide in the affairs of men\n Which,--taken at the flood,'--you know the rest,\n And most of us have found it now and then;\n At least we think so, though but few have guess'd\n The moment, till too late to come again.\n But no doubt every thing is for the... |
3,977 | 21700_canto_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Canto VII, one of the shortest in Don Juan, is primarily an introduction to Canto VIII, in which Byron describes the Battle of Ismail. In the first seven stanzas Byron defends himself against those critics of Don Juan who accuse the poet of "A tendency to under-rate and scoff / At human power and virtue . . ." . In hol... | [
"CANTO THE SEVENTH.",
"O Love! O Glory! what are ye who fly\n Around us ever, rarely to alight?\n There 's not a meteor in the polar sky\n Of such transcendent and more fleeting flight.\n Chill, and chain'd to cold earth, we lift on high\n Our eyes in search of either lovely light;\n ... |
3,978 | 21700_canto_viii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The storming of Ismail begins with a Russian artillery barrage, which is soon answered from within the fortress. The Russian columns are ordered to attack and the slaughter commences. Instead of attempting to describe the battle in detail, Byron concentrates on the fortunes of Juan and Johnson, who are fighting in the ... | [
"CANTO THE EIGHTH.",
"O blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds!\n These are but vulgar oaths, as you may deem,\n Too gentle reader! and most shocking sounds:\n And so they are; yet thus is Glory's dream\n Unriddled, and as my true Muse expounds\n At present such things, since they ar... |
3,979 | 21700_canto_ix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first ten stanzas are an attack on Wellington, who has won the Battle of Waterloo and has been richly rewarded by England for his victory. He should not have accepted the gifts his country lavished on him, Byron thinks; he should have been satisfied with thanks, like Epaminondas, who saved Thebes, and Washington, w... | [
"CANTO THE NINTH.",
"O, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame\n Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;\n France could not even conquer your great name,\n But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase--\n Beating or beaten she will laugh the same),\n You have obtain'd great pensions and mu... |
3,980 | 21700_canto_x | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Russia Juan becomes a polished Russian courtier and in the process also becomes a little dissipated. He lives "in a hurry / Of waste, and haste, and glare, and gloss, and glitter" . He writes to relatives in Spain about his present circumstances. They answer promptly, impressed by his good fortune. A number of them ... | [
"CANTO THE TENTH.",
"When Newton saw an apple fall, he found\n In that slight startle from his contemplation--\n 'T is said (for I 'll not answer above ground\n For any sage's creed or calculation)--\n A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round\n In a most natural whirl, called 'gravi... |
3,981 | 21700_canto_xi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Don Juan gets out of his carriage and walks behind it in order to get a general view of London. As he meditates on what a law-abiding city London is, a knife is flashed in his face and a voice cries, "Your money or your life." Impulsively, he draws his pistol and mortally wounds the robber. This is Juan's introduction ... | [
"CANTO THE ELEVENTH.",
"When Bishop Berkeley said 'there was no matter,'\n And proved it--'t was no matter what he said:\n They say his system 't is in vain to batter,\n Too subtle for the airiest human head;\n And yet who can believe it? I would shatter\n Gladly all matters down to ston... |
3,982 | 21700_canto_xii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Canto XII begins with a fourteen-stanza meditation on the misery of middle age and the pleasures of money, which Byron ironically sings the praises of. Money rules the world and even rules love. This meditation is followed by a boast about his youthful success as a writer and literary lion, of which he has lately paid ... | [
"CANTO THE TWELTH.",
"Of all the barbarous middle ages, that\n Which is most barbarous is the middle age\n Of man; it is--I really scarce know what;\n But when we hover between fool and sage,\n And don't know justly what we would be at--\n A period something like a printed page,\n Bl... |
3,983 | 21700_canto_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Among the friends made by Don Juan are Lord Henry Amundeville and his wife Lady Adeline. Lady Adeline is highborn, wealthy in her own right, and beautiful. She is The fair most fatal Juan ever met,Although she was not evil nor meant ill;But Destiny and Passion spread the net,And caught them . . . She is chaste, enjoys ... | [
"CANTO THE THIRTEENTH.",
"I now mean to be serious;--it is time,\n Since laughter now-a-days is deem'd too serious.\n A jest at Vice by Virtue 's call'd a crime,\n And critically held as deleterious:\n Besides, the sad 's a source of the sublime,\n Although when long a little apt to wear... |
3,984 | 21700_canto_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Canto XIV begins with some "editorializing" on Byron's part. Man has no certainties in life, a fact which is proved by the proliferation of philosophical systems, which contradict each other. But what is the purpose of these skeptical speculations, he hears the reader ask him. His only excuse is, he answers, it's his w... | [
"CANTO THE FOURTEENTH.",
"If from great nature's or our own abyss\n Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,\n Perhaps mankind might find the path they miss--\n But then 't would spoil much good philosophy.\n One system eats another up, and this\n Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;\n... |
3,985 | 21700_canto_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After five stanzas on the author's poor opinion of life, Byron provides some more characterization of Don Juan, or at least reinforces what he had already provided. Juan's manner is natural; he makes no attempt to make an impression. There is nothing studied or artificial in his conduct. He is without pretense and his ... | [
"CANTO THE FIFTEENTH.",
"Ah!--What should follow slips from my reflection;\n Whatever follows ne'ertheless may be\n As _a propos_ of hope or retrospection,\n As though the lurking thought had follow'd free.\n All present life is but an interjection,\n An 'Oh!' or 'Ah!' of joy or misery,\... |
3,986 | 21700_canto_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Canto XVI is divided into four sections. The first section is a ghost episode. On the night of the great supper, Juan, after he has gone to bed, feels "restless, and perplexed, and compromised." His mind is filled with thoughts of the sixteen-year-old Aurora and her cool unworldliness. In addition, there is a full moon... | [
"CANTO THE SIXTEENTH.",
"The antique Persians taught three useful things,\n To draw the bow, to ride, and speak the truth.\n This was the mode of Cyrus, best of kings--\n A mode adopted since by modern youth.\n Bows have they, generally with two strings;\n Horses they ride without remors... |
3,987 | 21700_canto_xvii_(unfinished) | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There are three kinds of orphans: the children who have lost their parents; the children who receive no love from their parents; and children who have no brothers or sisters. Of the three the most unfortunate are those who have lost their parents and are wealthy. People should be tolerant of free discussion of all thin... | [
"CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH.",
"The world is full of orphans: firstly, those\n Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase\n (But many a lonely tree the loftier grows\n Than others crowded in the forest's maze);\n The next are such as are not doomed to lose\n Their tender parents in their... |
3,988 | 2027_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The entire play is set in Orgon and Elmire's home. At opening, Madame Pernelle, Orgon's mother, is preparing to flamboyantly leave the house. She calls for her servant, Flipote, insisting they must leave immediately. When her daughter-in-law Elmire asks why she is so insistent, Madame Pernelle attacks the family for be... | [
"ACT I SCENE I",
"MADAME PERNELLE and FLIPOTTE, her servant; ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE,\n DAMIS, DORINE",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.",
"ELMIRE\n You hurry so, I hardly can attend you.",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Then don't, my daughter-in law. Stay where you are.\n I can dis... |
3,989 | 2027_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scenes I-II Orgon address Mariane, and asks how she feels about Tartuffe. When she acquiesces to only say words that will please her father, he is excited, and speaks with flowery language about Tartuffe. He then confesses his intention to marry her to Tartuffe instead of to Valere. During their exchange, Dorine enters... | [
"ACT II SCENE I",
"ORGON, MARIANE",
"ORGON\n Now, Mariane.",
"MARIANE\n Yes, father?",
"ORGON\n Come; I'll tell you\n A secret.",
"MARIANE\n Yes ... What are you looking for?",
"ORGON (looking into a small closet-room)\n To see there's no one there to spy upon us;\n That little closet's mighty ... |
3,990 | 2027_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scenes I-II Damis, angry, rages to Dorine about the "the conceited fool" Tartuffe, but she calms him by suggesting a plan. She has set up a meeting between Elmire and Tartuffe, so that Elmire can intercede on her step-daughter's behalf. Since Tartuffe fancies Elmire, she has the best chance of tricking him into refusin... | [
"ACT III SCENE I",
"DAMIS, DORINE",
"DAMIS\n May lightning strike me dead this very instant,\n May I be everywhere proclaimed a scoundrel,\n If any reverence or power shall stop me,\n And if I don't do straightway something desperate!",
"DORINE\n I beg you, moderate this towering passion;\n Your fat... |
3,991 | 2027_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleante confronts Tartuffe, demanding he help remedy the split between Orgon and Damis. Tartuffe counters that "Heaven's best interests will have been served," and that Damis was justly punished. When Cleante suggests that it contradicts his piety to assume responsibility for Earthly punishments that should be in God's... | [
"ACT IV SCENE I",
"CLEANTE, TARTUFFE",
"CLEANTE\n Yes, it's become the talk of all the town,\n And make a stir that's scarcely to your credit;\n And I have met you, sir, most opportunely,\n To tell you in a word my frank opinion.\n Not to sift out this scandal to the bottom,\n Suppose the worst for us--... |
3,992 | 2027_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon explains his concern over the strongbox to Cleante - the strongbox was given to him by a friend who had supported the wrong army in the recent wars. The friend's papers were hidden in the box, and his life and safety depended upon their secrecy. Worried he might be interrogated about it, Orgon had asked Tartuffe ... | [
"ACT V SCENE I",
"ORGON, CLEANTE",
"CLEANTE\n Whither away so fast?",
"ORGON\n How should I know?",
"CLEANTE\n Methinks we should begin by taking counsel\n To see what can be done to meet the case.",
"ORGON\n I'm all worked up about that wretched box.\n More than all else it drives me to despair."... |
3,993 | 2027_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We find ourselves in Paris, inside the house of Orgon. Madame Pernelle, Orgon's dear mama, is headed out the door, and fast. She's sick of what's going on in her son's house. Everyone - meaning Elmire, Orgon's second wife, Damis, his son, Mariane, his daughter, and Cleante, his brother-in-law - try their best to get he... | [
"ACT I SCENE I",
"MADAME PERNELLE and FLIPOTTE, her servant; ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE,\n DAMIS, DORINE",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.",
"ELMIRE\n You hurry so, I hardly can attend you.",
"MADAME PERNELLE\n Then don't, my daughter-in law. Stay where you are.\n I can dis... |
3,994 | 2027_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cleante and Dorine stay behind and discuss the situation. Cleante is amazed at how quickly Tartuffe has bamboozled Madame Pernelle. Dorine agrees, but she's even more afraid of the way he's tricking Orgon. Though he was once a wise and prudent advisor to the king, he seems to have gone a bit soft in the noggin. Now, sh... | [
"SCENE II",
"CLEANTE, DORINE",
"CLEANTE\n I won't escort her down,\n For fear she might fall foul of me again;\n The good old lady ...",
"DORINE\n Bless us! What a pity\n She shouldn't hear the way you speak of her!\n She'd surely tell you you're too \"good\" by half,\n And that she's not so \"old\" as... |
3,995 | 2027_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elmire, Mariane, and Damis come back, looking worn out. They've been getting another lecture from Madame Pernelle. Elmire has seen Orgon coming, and she decides to head upstairs. Cleante agrees to have a chat with him, and promises to bring up the question of Mariane's upcoming marriage to Valere - he wants to make sur... | [
"SCENE III",
"ELMIRE, MARIANE, DAMIS, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"ELMIRE (to Cleante)\n You're very lucky to have missed the speech\n She gave us at the door. I see my husband\n Is home again. He hasn't seen me yet,\n So I'll go up and wait till he comes in.",
"CLEANTE\n And I, to save time, will await him here;\... |
3,996 | 2027_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon rolls in, having just come from a trip out of town. He proceeds to ignore Cleante. He wants to hear about what's happened to the family in the time since he left. Dorine tells him that Elmire has been sick with a fever, but all Orgon really wants to hear about is Tartuffe. Every time Dorine tells him anything abo... | [
"SCENE IV",
"CLEANTE, DAMIS, DORINE",
"DAMIS\n I wish you'd say a word to him about\n My sister's marriage; I suspect Tartuffe\n Opposes it, and puts my father up\n To all these wretched shifts. You know, besides,\n How nearly I'm concerned in it myself;\n If love unites my sister and Valere,\n I love hi... |
3,997 | 2027_act_1,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now it's time for the title bout between Cleante and Orgon. Cleante tells his brother-in-law that Dorine was disrespecting him - and with good reason. He asks him how he could fall for Tartuffe's tricks. Orgon will hear none of this. He tells Cleante about how cool, how brilliant and humble Tartuffe is. Soon enough, Or... | [
"SCENE V",
"ORGON, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"ORGON\n Ah! Good morning, brother.",
"CLEANTE\n I was just going, but am glad to greet you.\n Things are not far advanced yet, in the country?",
"ORGON\n Dorine ...",
"(To Cleante)\n Just wait a bit, please, brother-in-law.\n Let me allay my first anxiety\n By ... |
3,998 | 2027_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon decides it's time he had a little heart-to-heart with Mariane, but before the confab can begin, he checks the room for eavesdroppers. That done, he starts buttering her up, telling her how good a daughter she is. He goes on to say that in order to repay him for his love she should do what she's told. She, being t... | [
"ACT II SCENE I",
"ORGON, MARIANE",
"ORGON\n Now, Mariane.",
"MARIANE\n Yes, father?",
"ORGON\n Come; I'll tell you\n A secret.",
"MARIANE\n Yes ... What are you looking for?",
"ORGON (looking into a small closet-room)\n To see there's no one there to spy upon us;\n That little closet's mighty ... |
3,999 | 2027_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorine shows up; Orgon accuses her of eavesdropping and tells her to buzz off. Dorine says to Orgon, that the gossip around town is that he wants to Mariane to marry Tartuffe, The maid says that the idea is so silly she has to laugh. Orgon can't believe that Dorine can't believe that he would want Mariane to marry Tart... | [
"SCENE II",
"ORGON, MARIANE, DORINE (coming in quietly and standing behind\n Orgon, so that he does not see her)",
"ORGON\n Well spoken. A good girl. Say then, my daughter,\n That all his person shines with noble merit,\n That he has won your heart, and you would like\n To have him, by my choice, become yo... |
4,000 | 2027_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorine criticizes Mariane for not taking a stand against her father. Mariane doesn't really have a good answer. She's just used to doing what she's told; she's done it for so long. Dorine puts her on the spot. Do you love Valere, she asks, or don't you? Mariane is insulted for a bit, but then she tells Dorine how much ... | [
"SCENE III",
"MARIANE, DORINE",
"DORINE\n Say, have you lost the tongue from out your head?\n And must I speak your role from A to Zed?\n You let them broach a project that's absurd,\n And don't oppose it with a single word!",
"MARIANE\n What can I do? My father is the master.",
"DORINE\n Do? Everythi... |
4,001 | 2027_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Valere comes in, looking concerned. He's heard that Mariane is supposed to marry Tartuffe now, and he wants some answers. Mariane gets him up to speed. When Valere asks Mariane what she's going to do, she's reluctant to tell him. Eventually, she says, she doesn't know what she's going to do. Valere, clearly annoyed, te... | [
"SCENE IV",
"VALERE, MARIANE, DORINE",
"VALERE\n Madam, a piece of news--quite new to me--\n Has just come out, and very fine it is.",
"MARIANE\n What piece of news?",
"VALERE\n Your marriage with Tartuffe.",
"MARIANE\n 'Tis true my father has this plan in mind.",
"VALERE\n Your father, madam ..."... |
4,002 | 2027_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Damis is ready to kick the crap out of Tartuffe. The servant tries to calm him down and redirect his energy into some more productive enterprise like, maybe, talking to Elmire. Elmire, it seems, has some "power" over Tartuffe - power, no doubt, of the feminine persuasion - and thus might be the key to catching the scou... | [
"ACT III SCENE I",
"DAMIS, DORINE",
"DAMIS\n May lightning strike me dead this very instant,\n May I be everywhere proclaimed a scoundrel,\n If any reverence or power shall stop me,\n And if I don't do straightway something desperate!",
"DORINE\n I beg you, moderate this towering passion;\n Your fat... |
4,003 | 2027_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tartuffe enters, talking loudly to his servant Laurent, who is off-stage; he's going to go to the prison, he says, to give money to the prisoners. Dorine can't stand his pretentiousness. Tartuffe can't stand the sight of Dorine's breasts, and he gives her a handkerchief to cover her bosom; he says the sight of it creat... | [
"SCENE II TARTUFFE, DORINE",
"TARTUFFE (speaking to his valet, off the stage, as soon as he sees\n Dorine is there)\n Lawrence, put up my hair-cloth shirt and scourge,\n And pray that Heaven may shed its light upon you.\n If any come to see me, say I'm gone\n To share my alms among the prisoners.",
"DOR... |
4,004 | 2027_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elmire enters. Tartuffe immediately showers her with blessings. She asks him to sit down. Tartuffe asks about her health, and tells her that he prayed and prayed for her...but that he didn't think his prayers were enough. Elmire thanks him for his concern and tells him not to worry. Still, Tartuffe does not stop. She t... | [
"SCENE III ELMIRE, TARTUFFE",
"TARTUFFE\n May Heaven's overflowing kindness ever\n Give you good health of body and of soul,\n And bless your days according to the wishes\n And prayers of its most humble votary!",
"ELMIRE\n I'm very grateful for your pious wishes.\n But let's sit down, so we may talk at... |
4,005 | 2027_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is where things get a bit crazy. Damis jumps out of the closet - remember, he's been hiding in there the whole time - and contradicts Elmire's promise. He wants to tell everyone about what a liar and a sleaze Tartuffe is; it's the second best thing to punching him in the face. Elmire tries to do some damage contro... | [
"SCENE IV ELMIRE, DAMIS, TARTUFFE",
"DAMIS (coming out of the closet-room where he had been hiding)\n No, I say! This thing must be made public.\n I was just there, and overheard it all;\n And Heaven's goodness must have brought me there\n On purpose to confound this scoundrel's pride\n And grant me means... |
4,006 | 2027_act_3,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Orgon enters the room, Damis lets the cat out of the bag. He tells Orgon all about Tartuffe's "adulterous offer," how Elmire was going to keep it a secret, and how he, Damis, just had to let Orgon know. Elmire defends her position, tells Damis that he should have kept silent, and leaves. | [
"SCENE V ORGON, ELMIRE, DAMIS, TARTUFFE",
"DAMIS\n Father, we've news to welcome your arrival,\n That's altogether novel, and surprising.\n You are well paid for your caressing care,\n And this fine gentleman rewards your love\n Most handsomely, with zeal that seeks no less\n Than your dishonour, as has ... |
4,007 | 2027_act_3,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon immediately asks Tartuffe if what Damis is saying is true. . Tartuffe tells Orgon that he is, in fact a bad guy, that he's awful, sinful, terrible, the worst person this side of Judas. He tells Orgon to believe what he has just been told, and to kick him to the curb, please. No, really. Orgon doesn't seem to hear... | [
"SCENE VI ORGON, DAMIS, TARTUFFE",
"ORGON\n Just Heaven! Can what I hear be credited?",
"TARTUFFE\n Yes, brother, I am wicked, I am guilty,\n A miserable sinner, steeped in evil,\n The greatest criminal that ever lived.\n Each moment of my life is stained with soilures;\n And all is but a mass of crime... |
4,008 | 2027_act_3,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Once Damis's out of the room, Tartuffe tells Orgon how awful Damis has made him feel. Orgon runs to the doorway through which Damis has just exited and shakes his fist, cursing his son some more. Tartuffe tells Orgon he simply has to leave, that he's caused too much trouble for everyone. Again, Tartuffe proves himself ... | [
"SCENE VII ORGON, TARTUFFE",
"ORGON\n What! So insult a saintly man of God!",
"TARTUFFE\n Heaven, forgive him all the pain he gives me! [4]",
"[Footnote 4: Some modern editions have adopted the reading, preserved\n by tradition as that of the earliest stage version: Heaven, forgive\n him even as I forg... |
4,009 | 2027_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We find Cleante and Tartuffe having a conversation concerning the recent ruckus between Damis and Orgon. Cleante tells Tartuffe that the town's abuzz with rumors about the conflict, then lays down a hypothetical: Assuming that Damis's to blame, shouldn't Tartuffe, being a good Christian and all, forgive him and let him... | [
"ACT IV SCENE I",
"CLEANTE, TARTUFFE",
"CLEANTE\n Yes, it's become the talk of all the town,\n And make a stir that's scarcely to your credit;\n And I have met you, sir, most opportunely,\n To tell you in a word my frank opinion.\n Not to sift out this scandal to the bottom,\n Suppose the worst for us--... |
4,010 | 2027_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorine, Mariane, and Elmire roll in looking concerned. It seems Mariane isn't taking the whole "marrying Tartuffe that evening" thing too well. She wants to do whatever she can to stop it from happening. | [
"SCENE II",
"ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"DORINE (to Cleante)\n Sir, we beg you\n To help us all you can in her behalf;\n She's suffering almost more than heart can bear;\n This match her father means to make to-night\n Drives her each moment to despair. He's coming.\n Let us unite our efforts now,... |
4,011 | 2027_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Orgon comes in and interrupts their brainstorming session before it's even begun. He has the marriage contract in his hand and wants Mariane to sign it. Mariane pleads with her father, asking him not to force the marriage upon her. She tells him that she'll hate her life. The girl says, that if Orgon insists she not ma... | [
"SCENE III",
"ORGON, ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE, DORINE",
"ORGON\n So ho! I'm glad to find you all together.",
"(To Mariane)\n Here is the contract that shall make you happy,\n My dear. You know already what it means.",
"MARIANE (on her knees before Orgon)\n Father, I beg you, in the name of Heaven\n Tha... |
4,012 | 2027_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elmire pulls up a table and tells Orgon to get underneath. He's a little confused by the whole thing, but he eventually consents. Elmire warns him that things are going to get a little bit weird, a bit shocking maybe, but that it's all an act. She's going to do her best to encourage Tartuffe, to fan the flames of his l... | [
"SCENE IV",
"ELMIRE, ORGON",
"ELMIRE\n Bring up this table, and get under it.",
"ORGON\n What?",
"ELMIRE\n One essential is to hide you well.",
"ORGON\n Why under there?",
"ELMIRE\n Oh, dear! Do as I say;\n I know what I'm about, as you shall see.\n Get under, now, I tell you; and once there\n B... |
4,013 | 2027_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tartuffe strolls into the room. Elmire gets right to the point...but not before telling Tartuffe to close the door and "look about for spies" . He apparently doesn't look very well, as he fails to find Orgon. Elmire tells Tartuffe that she only acted the way she did earlier in the day because she was caught off guard. ... | [
"SCENE V",
"TARTUFFE, ELMIRE; ORGON (under the table)",
"TARTUFFE\n They told me that you wished to see me here.",
"ELMIRE\n Yes. I have secrets for your ear alone.\n But shut the door first, and look everywhere\n For fear of spies.",
"(Tartuffe goes and closes the door, and comes back.)\n We surely ca... |
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