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1/5Act 1
Mucedorus
PROLOGUE
ACT IV
PROLOGUE
Enter Ate as before. Then let there follow Omphale, daughter to the king of Lydia, having a club in her hand, and a lion’s skin on her back, Hercules following with a distaff. Then let Omphale turn about, and taking off her pantole, strike Hercules on the head; then let them depart, Ate remaining, saying:
Quem non Argolici mandota severa Tyranni,
Non potuit Juno vincere, vicit amor.
Stout Hercules, the mirror of the world,
Son to Alemena and great Jupiter,
After so many conquests won in field,
After so many monsters quelled by force,
Yielded his valiant heart to Omphale,
A fearful woman void of manly strength.
She took the club, and wear the lion’s skin;
He took the wheel, and maidenly gan spin.
So martial Locrine, cheered with victory,
Falleth in love with Humber’s concubine,
And so forgetteth peerless Gwendoline.
His uncle Corineus storms at this,
And forceth Locrine for his grace to sue.
Lo here the sum, the process doth ensue.
[Exit.]
About
The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was in a volume of Shakespeare in the library of Charles the Second. But, well, likely not actually a Shakespeare.... Perhaps by Robert Green (1558 - 1592)
This play is mentioned as being popular in the 1611 Beaumont and Fletcher play 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle';. In fact, Mucedorus 'was enormously successful. This absurd play, with the merits and defects of a nursery tale, was acted by strolling companies everywhere till long after the Commonwealth, and passed through seventeen editions between 1598 and 1700, a record unequaled in the history of the pre-Restoration drama.' - Summary by ToddHW and Tucker Brooke
Cast list: The King: Jim Locke Rombelo: David Purdy King Valentia: blueriveriris Mucedorus, the Prince of Valentia: Jake Malizia Anselmo: llamaart Amadine, the King's daughter of Arragon: Jenn Broda Segasto, a Nobleman: Larry Wilson Enuie (Envy): Sonia Tremelio, a Captaine: Rob Marland Bremo, a wilde man: Alan Mapstone Comedy: Joanna Michal Hoyt Roderigo: Rapunzelina An ould woman: Scotty Smith Ariana, Amadine's maide: Joanna Michal Hoyt Collen, a Counseller: Anna Maria A messenger: Adrian Stephens Mouse the Clown: ToddHW Stage Directions: Estefanía Vidal Editing: ToddHW
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