Alone in Majesty with Study Guide

Instead, he need only trust his natural instincts, and dullness will pour forth. For inspiration, Shadwell should imitate his father rather than writers of wit, like Ben Jonson. And though Shadwell may have passionate ideas in his head, Flecknoe says, they will die whenever he manifests them with his pen. Perhaps, he says, Shadwell should quit writing plays and devote himself to acrostics.

Or perhaps he should write songs and sing them to the accompaniment of a lute. While still speaking Flecknoe disappears through a trap door. A wind carries his royal robe upward, and it falls upon the shoulders of the new King of Nonsense—Shadwell, Mac Flecknoe. This Flecknoe 1 found, who, like Augustus, young Was call'd to empire , 2 and had govern'd long: The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense.

Thoughtless as monarch oaks, that shade the plain, And, spread in solemn state, supinely reign. Here stopt the good old sire; and wept for joy From its old ruins brothel-houses rise, To whom true dullness should some Psyches owe, From dusty shops neglected authors come, His brows thick fogs, instead of glories, grace, In his sinister 56 hand, instead of ball , So Romulus, 'tis sung, by Tiber's brook, This is that boasted bias of thy mind , 76 By which one way, to dullness, 'tis inclin'd, Nor let thy mountain belly make pretence Of likeness ; 77 thine's a tympany 78 of sense. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise , 84 And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

See Background , above. The person who would succeed as king. Intelligence; creativity; writing ability. Lack of brilliance; stupidity. John Heywood , English author of interludes, which were humorous, witty, or moralistic dialogues recited on a stage before or after a play or during an intermission. Heywood was a pioneer in turning the abstractions of morality plays into real characters, as in The Mery Play betwene Johan Johan the Husbande, Tyb the Wyfe, and Syr Johan the Preest , printed in James Shirley , a minor English playwright. Seat of Norfolk County in eastern England.

Woolen or partly woolen fabric used to make clothing. Formerly; at one time; at an earlier time. A phrase that appears in a Shadwell play entitled The Virtuoso. Legendary poet and musician of ancient Greece. While on a sea voyage, he learned that sailors on the ship planned to rob and kill him. Resigned to his fate, he sang a song to the accompaniment of his lyre, then jumped overboard. But a dolphin enthralled with his music saved him and carried him to Corinth, Greece. In Dryden's time, any of several London streets where people urinated.

Food waste thrown into the river.

Hand used to beat out the rhythms of verse in the same way that one would beat thresh grain from husks. In versification, a metric measure such as an iamb or a trochee.

Opera libretto written by Shadwell. The story is based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche, which is as follows. Psyche is a young woman so beautiful that the goddess of love, Venus, becomes jealous. She sends her son, Cupid, to earth to use one of his arrows to make her fall in love with a horribly ugly man.

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Cupid, invisible to human eyes, enters her chamber while she is sleeping. When she awakens, he accidentally pricks his skin instead of hers, causing him to fall in love with her.

He then houses her in a palace as his wife but sleeps with her only in the darkness of night. He tells her she must never light a candle, for he does not wish to reveal his identity right away. Later, her sisters give her bad advice. After telling her that her mystery man is really a serpent, they advise her to light a lamp while he is sleeping, then kill him with a knife. After lighting the lamp, she sees Cupid for the first time and accidentally scratches herself with one of his arrows.

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Falling madly in love with him, she kisses him. Angry that she has disobeyed his instructions, he leaves her. While searching for him, she encounters Ceres, the goddess of agriculture and fertility. The great deity tells Psyche that she has no chance of finding Cupid unless she petitions Venus, the goddess who sent him to Psyche in the first place.

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