The Scottish History of James IV,
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First published in 1598. The plot of this "historical" play is entirely unhistorical. The text contains nothing to identify either the English or the Scottish king, and the date 1520 given in the Induction is seven years after the death of James IV at Flodden. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare. Robert Greene was a popular Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer known for his negative critiques of his colleagues. He is said to have been born in Norwich.[1] He attended Cambridge, receiving a BA in 1580, and an M.A. in 1583 before moving to London, where he arguably became the first professional author in England. Greene was prolific and published in many genres including romances, plays and autobiography."
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Robert Greene, author of bestselling books including Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction (both from Profile), has a degree in Classical Studies and has been an editor at Esquire and other magazines. He is also a playwright and lives in Los Angeles.
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The Scottish History of James IV, - Robert Greene
The Scottish History Of James The Fourth, Slaine at Flodden by Robert Greene
Entermixed with a pleasant Comedie, presented by Oboram King of Fayeries:
As it hath bene sundrie times publikely plaide.
Written by Robert Greene, Maister of Arts.
Omne tulit punctum.
LONDON
Printed by Thomas Creede. 1598.
THE MALONE SOCIETY REPRINTS 1921
PRINTED FOR THE MALONE SOCIETY BY FREDERICK HALL AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This reprint of James IV has been prepared by A. E. H. Swaen with the assistance of the General Editor. W. W. Greg.
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LIST OF CHARACTERS
Actus Primus. Schena Prima.
Actus Secundus. Schena Prima.
Actus Tertius. Schena Prima.
Actus Quartus. Schena Prima.
Actus Quintus. Schena Prima.
EDITORIAL NOTES
LIST OF DOUBTFUL AND IRREGULAR READINGS.
LIST OF CHARACTERS
in order of appearance.
In the Induction and Chorus:
OBERON, king of fairies.
BOHAN, a Scot.
SLIPPER } his sons.
NANO }
an antic (dance), fairies, a dancer ‘boy or wench’.
In the Dumb Shows:
SEMIRAMIS, queen of Assiria.
STABROBATES, king of India.
CYRUS, king of Persia.
OLIVE PAT, (?).
ALEXANDER, king of Macedon.
SESOSTRIS, king of Egypt.
In the Play:
The King of SCOTS.
The King of ENGLAND.
DOROTHEA, his daughter, wife of the King of Scots.
The Countess of ARRAN.
IDA, her daughter.
ATEUKIN (or GNATO).
ANDREW SNOORD, a servingman.
SLIPPER, a clown.
NANO, a dwarf.
Sir BARTRAM, a Scottish gentleman.
Sir EUSTACE (DICK), an English gentleman.
(A Servant of Sir Bartram.)
The Bishop of SAINT ANDREWS.
Earl DOUGLAS.
Lord MORTON.
a Purveyor.
JAQUES, a Frenchman.
Lord Ross.
a Huntsman.
a Tailor.
a Shoemaker.
a Cutler.
Sir CUTBERT ANDERSON.
Lady ANDERSON.
a Servant of the Countess of Arran.
a Lawyer.
a Merchant.
a Divine.
a Scout.
Lady Douglas, Sir Egmond, Lord Percy, Samles, an English Herald, lords, ladies, huntsmen, soldiers, antics.
Robert Greene from a pamphlet published in 1598.
King James IV
King James IV
James III and Margaret of Denmark, parents of James IV.
Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII, sister of King Henry VIII, wife of King James IV
Henry VII in 1505.
Eighteen-year-old Henry VIII after his cornonation in 1509.
King Henry VIII by Hans Holbein
Catherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII.
Thomas Howard, Second Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Surrey, commander of the English troops at the Battle of Flodden.
The Reconciliation of Titania and Oberon by Joseph Noel Paton
Actus Primus. Schena Prima.
Musicke playing within. I. Chor.
Enter ~After Oberṏ~, King of Fayries, an Antique, who dance about
a Tombe, plac’st conueniently on the Stage, out of the which, suddainly
starts vp as they daunce, ~Bohan~ a Scot, attyred like a ridstall
man, from whom the Antique flyes. ~Oberon~ Manet.
Bohan.
Ay say, whats thou?
Oberon. Thy friend Bohan.
Bohan. What wot I, or reck
I that, whay guid man, I reck
no friend, nor ay reck no foe, als 10
ene to me, git the ganging, and
trouble not may whayet, or ays
gar the recon me nene of thay friend, by the mary masse sall I.
Ober. Why angrie Scot, I visit thee for loue: then what
mooues thee to wroath?
Bohan. The deele awhit reck I thy loue. For I knowe
too well, that true loue tooke her flight twentie winter sence to
heauen, whither till ay can, weele I wot, ay sal nere finde loue:
an thou lou’st me, leaue me to my selfe. But what were those
Puppits that hopt and skipt about me year whayle? 20
Oberon. My subiects.
Boh. Thay subiects, whay art thou a King?
Ober. I am.
Bohan. The deele thou art, whay thou look’st not so big as
the king of Clubs, nor so sharpe as the king of Spades, nor so
faine as the king Adaymonds, be the masse ay take thee to bee
the king of false harts: therfore I rid thee away, or ayse so curry
your Kingdome, that yous be glad to runne to saue your life.
Ober. Why stoycall Scot, do what thou dar’st to me, heare is
my brest strike. 30
Boh. Thou wilt not threap me, this whiniard has gard many
better mẽ to lope thẽ thou: but how now? Gos sayds what wilt
not out? whay thou wich, thou deele, gads sute may whiniard.
Ober. Why pull man: but what an twear out, how then?
Boh. This then, thou weart best begon first: for ayl so lop
thy lyms, that thouse go with half a knaues carkasse to the deele
Ober. Draw it out, now strike foole, canst thou not?
Boh. Bread ay gad, what deele is in me, whay tell mee thou
skipiack what art thou?
Ober. Nay first tell me what thou wast from thy birth, what 40
thou hast past hitherto, why thou dwellest in a Tombe, & leauest
the world? and then I will release thee of these bonds, before
not.
Boh. And not before, then needs must needs sal: I was borne
a gentleman of the best bloud in all Scotland, except the king,
when time brought me to age, and death tooke my parents, I
became a Courtier, where though ay list not praise my selfe, ay
engraued the memory of Boughon on the skin-coate of some of
them, and reueld with the proudest.
Ober. But why liuing in such reputation, didst thou leaue to 50
be a Courtier?
Boh. Because my pride was vanitie, my expence losse, my reward
faire words and large promises, & my hopes spilt, for that
after many yeares seruice, one outran me, and what the deele
should I then do there. No no, flattering knaues that can cog
and prate fastest, speede best in the Court.
Ober. To what life didst thou then betake thee?
Boh. I then chang’d the Court for the countrey, and the wars
for a wife: but I found the craft of swaines more vile, then the
knauery of courtiers: the charge of children more heauie then 60
seruants, and wiues tongues worse then the warres it selfe: and
therefore I gaue ore