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%%\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 `verse' as a
%% support for text in verse; if you usually use package `poemscol'
%% instead, you may give a look to file `marlowe-poemscol.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{verse}
%% Warning: in this document I have used `\\!' (end of stanzas) to
%% mark the end of a speech, so that a space would be inserted
%% between speeches. This works only with the verse package or the
%% memoir class. Otherwise you must insert such a space by hand or
%% try to redefine \speakstab: e.g.
%% \renewcommand{\speakstab}{\bigskip\hspace{\speaksskip}}.

%% Load package `dramatist' after `verse'
\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}

\pagestyle{plain}
%% Maybe you want acts and scenes print their marks in the headings.
%% The following lines should work.
%%\makeatletter
%%\def\ps@myheadings{%%
%%    \renewcommand\drampermark[1]{\markboth{##1}{}}
%%    \renewcommand\actmark[1]{\markboth{##1}{}}
%%    \renewcommand\scenemark[1]{\markright{##1}}
%%    \def\@oddfoot{\hfil\thepage\hfil}
%%    \def\@evenfoot{\hfil\thepage\hfil}
%%    \def\@evenhead{\hfil\scshape\leftmark\hfil}%%
%%    \def\@oddhead{\hfil\scshape\rightmark\hfil}%%
%%}
%%\makeatother
%%\pagestyle{myheadings}

%% 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}}

%% This is from verse package (or memoir class), for line numbering.
\poemlines{5}

\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 myheadings.
%%\renewcommand{\actname}{}
%%\renewcommand{\theact}{}

\Act{Prologue}

\StageDir{Enter \mac.}

\begin{drama*}
\macspeaks
Albeit the world think Machiavel is dead,\\
Yet was his soul but flown beyond the Alps;\\
And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France,\\
To view this land, and frolic with his friends.\\
To some perhaps my name is odious;\\
But such as love me, guard me from their tongues,\\
And let them know that I am Machiavel,\\
And weigh not men, and therefore not men's words.\\
Admir'd I am of those that hate me most:\\
Though some speak openly against my books,\\
Yet will they read me, and thereby attain\\
To Peter's chair; and, when they cast me off,\\
Are poison'd by my climbing followers.\\
I count religion but a childish toy,\\
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.\\
Birds of the air will tell of murders past!\\
I am asham'd to hear such fooleries.\\
Many will talk of title to a crown:\\
What right had Caesar to the empery?\\
Might first made kings, and laws were then most sure\\
When, like the Draco's, they were writ in blood.\\
Hence comes it that a strong-built citadel\\
Commands much more than letters can import:\\
Which maxim had Phalaris observ'd,\\
H'ad never bellow'd, in a brazen bull,\\
Of great ones' envy:  o' the poor petty wights\\
Let me be envied and not pitied.\\
But whither am I bound?  I come not, I,\\
To read a lecture here in Britain,\\
But to present the tragedy of a Jew,\\
Who smiles to see how full his bags are cramm'd;\\
Which money was not got without my means.\\
I crave but this,--grace him as he deserves,\\
And let him not be entertain'd the worse\\
Because he favours me.\\
\direct*{Exit.}
%% The starred version of \direct can be used only at the end of a
%% speech, when the verse package or the memoir class has been
%% loaded.
\end{drama*}

%% Now we restore the default settings.
\setcounter{act}{0}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{0}
\renewcommand{\printacttitle}[1]{\acttitlefont #1}
%% This is needed only with myheadings.
%%\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;\\
And of the third part of the Persian ships\\
There was the venture summ'd and satisfied.\\
As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz,\\
That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece,\\
Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings.\\
Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash!\\
Well fare the Arabians, who so richly pay\\
The things they traffic for with wedge of gold,\\
Whereof a man may easily in a day\\
Tell that which may maintain him all his life.\\
The needy groom, that never finger'd groat,\\
Would make a miracle of thus much coin;\\
But he whose steel-barr'd coffers are cramm'd full,\\
And all his life-time hath been tired,\\
Wearying his fingers' ends with telling it,\\
Would in his age be loath to labour so,\\
And for a pound to sweat himself to death.\\
Give me the merchants of the Indian mines,\\
That trade in metal of the purest mould;\\
The wealthy Moor, that in the eastern rocks\\
Without control can pick his riches up,\\
And in his house heap pearl like pebble-stones,\\
Receive them free, and sell them by the weight;\\
Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts,\\
Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds,\\
Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds,\\
And seld-seen costly stones of so great price,\\
As one of them, indifferently rated,\\
And of a carat of this quantity,\\
May serve, in peril of calamity,\\
To ransom great kings from captivity.\\
This is the ware wherein consists my wealth;\\
And thus methinks should men of judgment frame\\
Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,\\
And, as their wealth increaseth, so inclose\\
Infinite riches in a little room.\\
But now how stands the wind?\\
Into what corner peers my halcyon's bill?\\
Ha! to the east? yes.  See how stand the vanes--\\
East and by south:  why, then, I hope my ships\\
I sent for Egypt and the bordering isles\\
Are gotten up by Nilus' winding banks;\\
Mine argosy from Alexandria,\\
Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail,\\
Are smoothly gliding down by Candy-shore\\
To Malta, through our Mediterranean sea.--\\
But who comes here?\\
%% We need another character
\Character{Merchant}{mer}
\direct{Enter a \mer.}
How now!\\!

\merspeaks Barabas, thy ships are safe,\\
Riding in Malta-road; and all the merchants\\
With other merchandise are safe arriv'd,\\
And have sent me to know whether yourself\\
Will come and custom them.\\!

\barspeaks The ships are safe thou say'st, and richly fraught?\\!

\merspeaks They are.\\!

\barspeaks Why, then, go bid them come ashore,\\
And bring with them their bills of entry:\\
I hope our credit in the custom-house\\
Will serve as well as I were present there.\\
Go send 'em threescore camels, thirty mules,\\
And twenty waggons, to bring up the ware.\\
But art thou master in a ship of mine,\\
And is thy credit not enough for that?\\!
\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?\\!

\fbspeaks Know, knights of Malta, that we came from Rhodes,\\
From Cyprus, Candy, and those other isles\\
That lie betwixt the Mediterranean seas.\\!

\ferspeaks What's Cyprus, Candy, and those other isles\\
To us or Malta? what at our hands demand ye?\\!

\calspeaks The ten years' tribute that remains unpaid.\\!

\ferspeaks Alas, my lord, the sum is over-great!\\
I hope your highness will consider us.\\!

\calspeaks I wish, grave governor, 'twere in my power\\
To favour you; but 'tis my father's cause,\\
Wherein I may not, nay, I dare not dally.\\!
\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\\
The sick man's passport in her hollow beak,\\
And in the shadow of the silent night\\
Doth shake contagion from her sable wings,\\
Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas\\
With fatal curses towards these Christians.\\
The incertain pleasures of swift-footed time\\
Have ta'en their flight, and left me in despair;\\
And of my former riches rests no more\\
But bare remembrance; like a soldier's scar,\\
That has no further comfort for his maim.--\\
O Thou, that with a fiery pillar ledd'st\\
The sons of Israel through the dismal shades,\\
Light Abraham's offspring; and direct the hand\\
Of Abigail this night! or let the day\\
Turn to eternal darkness after this!--\\
No sleep can fasten on my watchful eyes,\\
Nor quiet enter my distemper'd thoughts,\\
Till I have answer of my Abigail.\\!
\end{drama*}

\StageDir{Enter \abi above.}

\begin{drama*}
\abispeaks Now have I happily espied a time\\
To search the plank my father did appoint;\\
And here, behold, unseen, where I have found\\
The gold, the pearls, and jewels, which he hid.\\!

\barspeaks Now I remember those old women's words,\\
Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales,\\
And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night\\
About the place where treasure hath been hid:\\
And now methinks that I am one of those;\\
For, whilst I live, here lives my soul's sole hope,\\
And, when I die, here shall my spirit walk.\\!
\end{drama*}

\begin{center}
[\dots]
\end{center}

\end{document}

\endinput
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