%% %% This is file `marlowe-poemscol.tex', %% generated with the docstrip utility. %% %% The original source files were: %% %% dramatist.dtx (with options: `pmarlowe') %% %% IMPORTANT NOTICE: %% %% For the copyright see the source file. %% %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed %% with new filenames distinct from marlowe-poemscol.tex. %% %% For distribution of the original source see the terms %% for copying and modification in the file dramatist.dtx. %% %% This generated file may be distributed as long as the %% original source files, as listed above, are part of the %% same distribution. (The sources need not necessarily be %% in the same archive or directory.) %% dramatist.dtx %% Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Massimiliano Dominici %% \CharacterTable%% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z %% Lower-case \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z %% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9 %% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \# %% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \& %% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \) %% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \, %% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/ %% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \< %% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \? %% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\ %% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_ %% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \| %% Right brace \} Tilde \~} %% %%\section{The GNU General Public License} %% This file shows some basic features of package `dramatist', when %% typesetting a drama in verse. Here we use package `poemscol' as a %% support for text in verse; if you usually use package `verse' %% instead, you may give a look to file `marlowe-verse.tex'. %% %% The source for this example is taken from Marlowe's `Jew of %% Malta'. I took leave to insert division in scenes, which is not %% present in the original edition, in order to show more features. \documentclass{book} \usepackage{fancyhdr,newmarn,geometry} \usepackage{keyval,ifthen,newcropmark} \usepackage{poemscol} %% Load package `dramatist' after `poemscol' \usepackage{dramatist} %% comment out one of the following lines (and comment out the %% previous one) if you want line numbering per act or per scene. %%\usepackage[lnpa]{dramatist} %%\usepackage[lnps]{dramatist} %% We may change some parameters in the look of acts and scenes: %%\renewcommand{\actnamefont}{\bfseries\Large} %%\renewcommand{\theact}{\Roman{act}} %%\renewcommand{\scenenamefont}{\bfseries\large} %%\renewcommand{\thescene}{\Roman{scene}} %% We may change some parameters in the look of characters: %%\renewcommand{\castfont}{\bfseries} %%\renewcommand{\speaksfont}{\itshape} %%\renewcommand{\speaksdel}{:} %% We may change some parameters in the look of stage directions: %%\StageDirConf{\begin{center}\begin{minipage}{.4\textwidth}\bfseries}{\end{minipage}\end{center}} %% Comment out the following lines if you want to insert a vertical %% space between speeches. %%\makeatletter %%\renewcommand{\speakstab}{\if@stagedir\global\@stagedirfalse\else\bigskip\fi\hspace{\speaksskip}} %%\makeatother %% Maybe you want acts and scenes print their marks in the headings. %% The following lines should work. %%\renewcommand{\drampermark}[1]{\volumeheader{#1}} %%\renewcommand{\actmark}[1]{\leftheader{#1}} %%\renewcommand{\scenemark}[1]{\volumeheader{#1}} %%\fancyhf{} %%\fancyhead[CO]{\scshape \volumeheadervalue} %%\fancyhead[CE]{\scshape \leftheadervalue} %%\fancyfoot[CE]{\thepage} %%\fancyfoot[CO]{\thepage} \author{Christopher Marlowe} \title{The Jew of Malta} \date{} \begin{document} \begin{titlepage} \maketitle \end{titlepage} \tableofcontents %% We define some characters appearing in the play. \Character[FERNEZE, governor of Malta.]{Ferneze}{fer} \Character[LODOWICK, his son.]{Lodowick}{lod} \Character[SELIM CALYMATH, son to the Grand Seignior.]{Calymath}{cal} \Character[MARTIN DEL BOSCO, vice-admiral of Spain.]{Martin Del Bosco}{mar} \Character[MATHIAS, a gentleman.]{Mathias}{mat} %% group of characters. \begin{CharacterGroup}{friars.} \GCharacter{JACOMO,}{Jacomo}{jac} \GCharacter{BARNARDINE,}{Barnardine}{barn} \end{CharacterGroup} \Character[BARABAS, a wealthy Jew.]{Barabas}{bar} \Character[ITHAMORE, a slave.]{Ithamore}{ith} \Character[PILIA-BORZA, a bully, attendant to BELLAMIRA.]{Pilia-Borza}{pb} %% the following three collective characters appear in the play as %% single instances, so we don't need define commands and entries %% for them. \Character[Two Merchants.]{}{} \Character[Three Jews.]{}{} \Character[Knights, Bassoes, Officers, Guard, Slaves, Messenger, and Carpenters]{}{} \Character[KATHARINE, mother to MATHIAS.]{Katharine}{kat} \Character[ABIGAIL, daughter to BARABAS.]{Abigail}{abi} \Character[BELLAMIRA, a courtezan.]{Bellamira}{bel} \Character[ABBESS.]{Abbess}{abb} \Character[NUN.]{Nun}{nun} %% This character doesn't appear in the dramatist personae list. \Character{Machiavel}{mac} %% We call the dramatis personae list. \DramPer %% The Prologue: we use \Act, but prevent it from printing \actname %% and \theact. \setcounter{secnumdepth}{-1} \renewcommand{\printacttitle}[1]{\centering\acttitlefont #1} %% This is needed only with customized headings. %%\renewcommand{\actname}{} %%\renewcommand{\theact}{} \Act{Prologue} \StageDir{Enter \mac.} \begin{drama*} \macspeaks Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead,\verseline Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps;\verseline And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France,\verseline To view this land, and frolic with his friends.\verseline To some perhaps my name is odious;\verseline But such as love me, guard me from their tongues,\verseline And let them know that I am Machiavel,\verseline And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words.\verseline Admir'd I am of those that hate me most:\verseline Though some speak openly against my books,\verseline Yet will they read me, and thereby attain\verseline To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off,\verseline Are poison'd by my climbing followers.\verseline I count religion but a childish toy,\verseline And hold there is no sin but ignorance.\verseline Birds of the air will tell of murders past!\verseline I am asham'd to hear such fooleries.\verseline Many will talk of title to a crown:\verseline What right had Caesar to the empery?\verseline Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure\verseline When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood.\verseline Hence comes it that a strong-built citadel\verseline Commands much more than letters can import:\verseline Which maxim had Phalaris observ'd,\verseline H'ad never bellow'd, in a brazen bull,\verseline Of great ones' envy: o' the poor petty wights\verseline Let me be envied and not pitied.\verseline But whither am I bound? I come not, I,\verseline To read a lecture here in Britain,\verseline But to present the tragedy of a Jew,\verseline Who smiles to see how full his bags are cramm'd;\verseline Which money was not got without my means.\verseline I crave but this,--grace him as he deserves,\verseline And let him not be entertain'd the worse\verseline Because he favours me.\verseline \direct{Exit.} \end{drama*} %% Now we restore the default settings. \setcounter{act}{0} \setcounter{secnumdepth}{0} \renewcommand{\printacttitle}[1]{\acttitlefont #1} %% This is needed only with customized headings. %%\renewcommand{\actname}{Act} %%\renewcommand{\theact}{\roman{act}} %%\renewcommand{\theact}{\Roman{act}} %% Without a title, the command to be used is \act. We add a %% footnote, just to show a feature. \act[\footnote{This is the first act.}] \scene %% Scene are not marked in the original edition. I have introduced %% them (somehow arbitrarily, I suppose) to give a complete review %% of the available features. \StageDir{\bar discovered in his counting-house, with heaps of gold before him.} \begin{drama*} \barspeaks So that of thus much that return was made;\verseline And of the third part of the Persian ships\verseline There was the venture summ'd and satisfied.\verseline As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,\verseline That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,\verseline Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.\verseline Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!\verseline Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay\verseline The things they traffic for with wedge of gold,\verseline Whereof a man may easily in a day\verseline Tell that which may maintain him all his life.\verseline The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,\verseline Would make a miracle of thus much coin;\verseline But he whose steel-barr'd coffers are cramm'd full,\verseline And all his life-time hath been tired,\verseline Wearying his fingers' ends with telling it,\verseline Would in his age be loath to labour so,\verseline And for a pound to sweat himself to death.\verseline Give me the merchants of the Indian mines,\verseline That trade in metal of the purest mould;\verseline The wealthy Moor, that in the eastern rocks\verseline Without control can pick his riches up,\verseline And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones,\verseline Receive them free, and sell them by the weight;\verseline Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts,\verseline Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds,\verseline Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds,\verseline And seld-seen costly stones of so great price,\verseline As one of them, indifferently rated,\verseline And of a carat of this quantity,\verseline May serve, in peril of calamity,\verseline To ransom great kings from captivity.\verseline This is the ware wherein consists my wealth;\verseline And thus methinks should men of judgment frame\verseline Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,\verseline And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose\verseline Infinite riches in a little room.\verseline But now how stands the wind?\verseline Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill?\verseline Ha! to the east? yes. See how stand the vanes--\verseline East and by south: why, then, I hope my ships\verseline I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles\verseline Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks;\verseline Mine argosy from Alexandria,\verseline Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail,\verseline Are smoothly gliding down by Candy-shore\verseline To Malta, through our Mediterranean sea.--\verseline But who comes here?\verseline %% We need another character \Character{Merchant}{mer} \direct{Enter a \mer.} How now!\verseline \merspeaks Barabas, thy ships are safe,\verseline Riding in Malta-road; and all the merchants\verseline With other merchandise are safe arriv'd,\verseline And have sent me to know whether yourself\verseline Will come and custom them.\verseline \barspeaks The ships are safe thou say'st, and richly fraught?\verseline \merspeaks They are.\verseline \barspeaks Why, then, go bid them come ashore,\verseline And bring with them their bills of entry:\verseline I hope our credit in the custom-house\verseline Will serve as well as I were present there.\verseline Go send 'em threescore camels, thirty mules,\verseline And twenty waggons, to bring up the ware.\verseline But art thou master in a ship of mine,\verseline And is thy credit not enough for that?\verseline \end{drama*} \begin{center} [\dots] \end{center} \scene %%Other characters. \Character{knights}{knights} \Character{officers}{officers} \Character{bassoes}{bassoes} \Character{First Basso}{fb} %% An alternative formulation for \StageDir. \begin{stagedir} Enter \fer, governor of Malta, \knights, and \officers; met by \cal, and \bassoes of the Turk. \end{stagedir} \begin{drama*} \ferspeaks Now, bassoes, what demand you at our hands?\verseline \fbspeaks Know, knights of Malta, that we came from Rhodes,\verseline From Cyprus, Candy, and those other isles\verseline That lie betwixt the Mediterranean seas.\verseline \ferspeaks What's Cyprus, Candy, and those other isles\verseline To us or Malta? what at our hands demand ye?\verseline \calspeaks The ten years' tribute that remains unpaid.\verseline \ferspeaks Alas, my lord, the sum is over-great!\verseline I hope your highness will consider us.\verseline \calspeaks I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power\verseline To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,\verseline Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.\verseline \end{drama*} \begin{center} [\dots] \end{center} \act \scene \StageDir{Enter \bar with a light.} \begin{drama*} \barspeaks Thus, like the sad-presaging raven, that tolls\verseline The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\verseline And in the shadow of the silent night\verseline Doth shake contagion from her sable wings,\verseline Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas\verseline With fatal curses towards these Christians.\verseline The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time\verseline Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair;\verseline And of my former riches rests no more\verseline But bare remembrance; like a soldier's scar,\verseline That has no further comfort for his maim.--\verseline O Thou, that with a fiery pillar ledd'st\verseline The sons of Israel through the dismal shades,\verseline Light Abraham's offspring; and direct the hand\verseline Of Abigail this night! or let the day\verseline Turn to eternal darkness after this!--\verseline No sleep can fasten on my watchful eyes,\verseline Nor quiet enter my distemper'd thoughts,\verseline Till I have answer of my Abigail.\verseline \end{drama*} \StageDir{Enter \abi above.} \begin{drama*} \abispeaks Now have I happily espied a time\verseline To search the plank my father did appoint;\verseline And here, behold, unseen, where I have found\verseline The gold, the pearls, and jewels, which he hid.\verseline \barspeaks Now I remember those old women's words,\verseline Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales,\verseline And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night\verseline About the place where treasure hath been hid:\verseline And now methinks that I am one of those;\verseline For, whilst I live, here lives my soul's sole hope,\verseline And, when I die, here shall my spirit walk.\verseline \end{drama*} \begin{center} [\dots] \end{center} \end{document} \endinput %% %% End of file `marlowe-poemscol.tex'.