Shakespeare and the Jesuits. Andrea Campana
me water unto my head and fluds of tears unto mine eyes, that I may bewayle day and night the Slayne of my Country!” (1)
H: “she followed by poor father’s body/Like Niobe, all tears” (1.2); ”tears in his eyes, distraction in’s aspect” (2.2); “He would drown the stage with tears” (2.2); ”Tears seven times salt” (4.5); “I forbid my tears” (4.7)
WC: “Who will give me water unto my head and fluds of tears” (1)
H: “What if it tempt you toward the flood” (1.4)
WC: “mourning for blind Ignorance and Impiety” (4)
H: “Of impious stubbornness … simple and unschooled” (1.2)
WC: “the Badde, that feast and banquet, riot and rejoyce in their sins” (6) “nor have riotous feasters in a Taverne, a surer warrant of life” (54)
H: “Go to your rest; at night we’ll feast together.” (2.2) “The ocean, overpeering of his list [shore] eats not the flats with more impiteous haste than young Laertes, in a riotus head” (4.5)
WC: “These our antagonists [Protestant preachers] that are so jolly and jocund, so puffed up with pride” (21)
H: “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, while like a puffed and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance treads” (1.3)
WC: “ignorant zeale is ready upon the least occasion to disgrace it” (4)
H: “Let me not burst in ignorance” (1.4)
WC: “ignorant zeale is ready upon the least occasion to disgrace it” (4)
H: “ministers of grace defend us!” (1.4)
WC: “Thus did ancient Infidelity speak in the Puritan language, which now dayly sounds in our ears.” (8)
H: “Pours poison in his ears” (stage direction during the play-within-the-play); “And in the porches of my ears did pour the leperous distilment” (1.5)
WC: “crowne of patience in the next world” (12)
H: “crowner’s quest law” (5.1) “The crowner hath sate on her” (5.1)
TD: “nor the conqueror his crown”
WC: “crowne of patience in the next world” (12)
H: “That patient merit of th’unworthy takes” (3.1) “Sprinkle cool patience” (3.1); “They stay upon your patience” (3.2); “Be you content to lend your patience to us” (4.5); “Till then in patience our proceeding be” (5.1)
TD: “the sister of patience”
WC: “as the stroake of God’s special providence” (44) “this course of God’s providence” (6) “such is his [God’s] providence in this life (6) “by the hand of God’s providence” (7) “sweet course of providence” (40)
H: “special providence in the fall of a sparrow” (5.2) “whose providence should have kept short” (4.1)
WC: “A Sparow (though not worth a farthing) falles not to the ground without the heavenly Father” (50)
H: “special providence in the fall of a sparrow” (5.2)
WC: “poyson given him by Domitian his unnaturalbrother, whose cruelty he could never overcome with all kind of curtesies, clemencies, and tokens of more than brotherly love” (14)
H: “They do but jest, poison in jest” (3.2) “’A poisons him i’ th’ garden for his estate” (3.2) “his foul and most unnatural murder” (1.5) “Let me be cruel, not unnatural” (3.3) “My father’s brother, but no more like my father/Than I to Hercules.” (1.2)
WC: “taking the ghostly reflection of their soul” [Eucharist] (8)
H: “could force his soul so to his own conceit” (2.2) “Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice” (3.2) “May one be pardoned and retain th’ offense? … O limèd soul.” (3.3)
WC: “taking the ghostly reflection of their soul” [Eucharist] (8)
H: “Alas, poor ghost” (1.5) “Ay, thou poor ghost” (1.5) “There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave to tell us this” (1.5) “It is an honest ghost” (1.5) “It is a damned ghost that we have seen” (3.2) “I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound” (3.2)
WC: “these earth-quakes were raysed by the inchantment and witchery of a woman professing herself a Christian and a Prophetesse” (17)
H: “O most pernicious [malicious] woman!” (1.5)
WC: “these earth-quakes were raysed by the inchantment and witchery of a woman professing herself a Christian and a Prophetesse” (17)
H: “that adulterate beast, with witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts” (1.5) “‘Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.” (3.3) “but this gallant had witchcraft in it” (4.7)
WC: “these earth-quakes were raysed by the inchantment and witchery of a woman professing herself a Christian and a Prophetesse” (17)
H: “Now I could drink hot blood and do such bitter business the day would quake to look on.” (3.3)
WC: “we will bring them … out of Calvin’s closet into the sight of heaven and earth” (31)
H: “I