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The Devil's Charter
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First Published in 1999. 'Our subject is of blood and tragedy, Murther, foul incest and hypocrisy'. In the sensational history of Borgias, Barnabe Barnes found a theme tailor-made for the dark and lurid imaginings of the Jacobean stage. And then he spiced it up a little. This vigorous play was first performed by Shakespeare's company in 1607 and revived 390 years later in a semi-stage reading by Globe Education.
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ACT 1 SCENE 1
Enter marching after Drums and Trumpets at two several places, King CHARLES of France, Gilbert MONTPENSIER, Cardinal of St Peter ad VINCULA, Soldiers
Encountering them LODOWICK Sforza [and] Charles Balbiano CHARLES and LODOWICK embrace.
Charles | Renowned Lodowick, our warlike cousin, |
Auspiciously encounterâd on the skirts | |
Of Piedmont, we greet you joyfully. | |
Lodowick | Thrice and forever most renowned Charles, |
A faithful tongue from an unfeigned heart, | |
As a just herald full of truth and honour, | |
On the behalf of forlorn Italy, | |
Needing and craving at your princely hands | |
The patronage and true protection | |
Of such a potent and victorious king, | |
Humbly salutes your royal Majesty. | |
The ship of which sometime well-guided state | |
Is through tempestuous timesâ malignity, | |
By worthless pilots, foolish governors, | |
Mutually factious, like to sink through schism | |
Into the bottom of the black abysm | |
Through thâimposition of necessity. | |
Do not, oh, do not then (most Christian Charles), | |
Do not forsake her holding up her hands | |
For succour to your royal clemency: | |
Her sails are rent, masts spent and rudder broke, | |
And under water such wide open leaks | |
As under water soon will make her sink, | |
Having been bilgâd upon so many shelves, | |
So torn, so rotten, and so long unriggâd, | |
And playing with the waves to and again, | |
As one not governed with help of helm. | |
One, then, whom nature in his vows to God | |
Hath tied to tender her forlorn estate, | |
With eyes foreseeing and compassionate, | |
Retenders her to your high Majesty, | |
A Christian prince so wise, so valiant, | |
Undoubted heir unto the crown of Naples: | |
By lawful right of that great house of Anjou, | |
Of which your grace is well known lawful heir, | |
By thâissues of that Charles the First, that first | |
Of the blood royal of the crown of France, | |
Obtainâd that kingdom, ages many past. | |
These reasons were with Lodowick Sforza movâd, | |
To move your Majesty with martial force | |
To pass... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- A Note from the Co-ordinator
- Editorâs Introduction
- Dramatis Personae
- Prologue
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Act 4
- Act 5
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Glossary of Foreign Passages
- A Note on Act 3 Scene 3
- Synopsis
- Textual Notes