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All's Lost by Lust

All's Lost by Lust is a Jacobean tragedy by William Rowley. A "tragedy of remarkable frankness and effectiveness," "crude and fierce," it was written between 1618 and 1620.

Publication
The play was first published in 1633 (seven years after Rowley's death), in a quarto published by the bookseller Thomas Harper. This 1633 quarto was the only edition of the play in Rowley's era; the drama would not be reprinted until the nineteenth century.

Performance
All's Lost by Lust was first performed by Rowley's playing company, Prince Charles' Men, and later by the Lady Elizabeth's Men and Queen Henrietta's Men. The play was popular in its own period and was revived during the Restoration; Samuel Pepys saw George Jolly's production at the Red Bull Theatre on 23 March 1661. In his famous Diary, Pepys described the production as "poorly done" with "much disorder" — when a boy singer performed a song poorly, the music master "fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house into an uproar."

Like many English Renaissance plays, Rowley's tragedy was adapted for later productions. One "W. C." was responsible for a version called The Rape Reveng'd, or the Spanish Revolution in 1690. A 1705 adaptation titled The Conquest of Spain in credited to Mary Pix.

Since then, the work has fallen out of favour and has not been revived.

Genre
Rowley's reputation as an author is grounded on his comedies; All's Lost by Lust is his only surviving tragedy. The tragicomic Fitzallen subplot in A Fair Quarrel and the opening and closing scenes in The Changeling are other rare examples of the serious side of Rowley's authorship.

All's Lost by Lust has been classed with other Jacobean tragedies that treat the private crime of rape in a larger political and social context, Including John Fletcher's Valentinian and Bonduca, and Thomas Middleton's Hengist, King of Kent and The Revenger's Tragedy, among other works of the era that feature a "tyrant-rapist" figure.

Rowley's tragedy "might be called a rape play with a difference." Its "ideological surprises" include a would-be warrior woman, a "murderously jealous wife...their conscience-ridden, bigamous husband...and the post mortem ménage à trois that unites all three. And that is only the sub-plot...."

The clown
The play's comic relief is supplied largely by the clown character Jaques; the Dramatis Personae of the 1633 quarto states that Jaques was "personated by the Poet." Rowley had a habit of composing comic roles for himself to play; he wrote and played the clown part of Bustopha in The Maid in the Mill, his late collaboration with Fletcher. The comic parts of Chough in A Fair Quarrel and Simplicity in The World Tossed at Tennis, two of his collaborations with Thomas Middleton, fall into the same category, as do some other clown roles in other Rowley plays. (Rowley's self-penned roles are recognisable as "fat clown" roles, since Rowley was by all evidence a man physically equipped to fill such parts.)

Synopsis
The play is based on the Spanish legends about the Moorish invasion of Spain in the eighth century. It depicts the tale of Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain, and his general Julianus, based on the legendary Julian, count of Ceuta. (Rowley's specific sources for the story are not known, though he had a large body of traditional lore, poems, and ballads on which to base his work.)

As the play opens, the Moorish invasion of Spain is in the offing; King Roderick musters his army and places it under the command of Julianus. Roderick himself is more interested in seducing the general's daughter Jacinta; his sycophant and pander Lothario brings in an old bawd named Malena to help convince the young woman to yield her virginity. Roderick is also troubled by an empty treasury; he plans to remedy the problem by breaking into an enchanted castle, isolated and secluded by many previous kings, that he believes holds a great treasure.

The play's second and third scenes introduce the characters of the subplot. Antonio is a young nobleman, infatuated with and courting a young woman named Margaretta. She is a commoner, and Antonio's friend Lazarello complains about the social inequality of the proposed match. Margaretta's father is also uneasy about the match, but her brother, Jaques the clown, is its eager advocate. Antonio marries Margaretta hurriedly before leaving for military duty; the marriage, for the time being, is kept secret.

Lothario brings Malena and Jacinta together at Roderick's court, and the old pandress tries her best to make Jacinta pliant, but with no success. Roderick enters, and drags Jacinta offstage to rape her. Julianus, meanwhile, leads his forces south to meet the Moors. He and his officers, including Antonio, stop at the castle of Alonzo; they meet Alonzo's beautiful and extroverted daughter Dionisa. Antonio and Dionisa are instantly attracted to each other, and Antonio comes to regret his hasty marriage to Margaretta. The Spanish forces engage the Moorish invaders and win the battle, capturing many leading Moorish officers; Antonio distinguishes himself by his courage. Lazarello favours a match between Antonio and Dionisa, and advises Antonio on various ways to put aside his secret wife.

Lothario keeps Jacinta imprisoned in a castle after her rape; but Jacinta obtains his keys while he sleeps, and escapes. She goes to her father and tells him of her violation. Julianus is overwhelmed by the offence to his family's honour and by his king's betrayal; his officers rally his spirits by staging a review of his troops and the prisoners he has taken, including the Moorish king, Muly Mumen. Julianus tells them of his daughter's rape, and the offended troops agree to support a rebellion against Roderick; Julianus releases Muly Mumen and his men from captivity and the two commanders form an alliance against Roderick.

Margaretta learns of Antonio's betrayal; though a commoner by birth, she is too proud and spirited to accept it. She writes a deceptive letter to her husband, delivered by her brother the clown, that indicates that she will acquiesce to becoming his concubine rather than his wife. Lazarello has a plan to break the connection permanently: he will go to Margaretta in the night in Antonio's place. (This is a reversal of the standard bed trick that is so common in plays of Rowley's era, in which the man rather than the woman is substituted.) Lazarello says that he will not have sex with Margaretta, in deference to Antonio's honour; but after spending the night with her he will be able to claim that he has dishonored her, allowing Antonio an escape from the now-unwanted marriage. Margaretta, however, conspires with her servant Fydella to murder Antonio; on the crucial night, the two women strangle Lazarello with a rope, thinking they are killing Antonio.

The murder is quickly exposed, though not the confusion of identities. Jaques the clown meets Lothario, who is now in disgrace over his loss of Jacinta; both men plan on hanging themselves. The two have a sort of competition of suicidality; Lothario offers to pay Jaques to hang him, and Jaques, greedy and unsuited to honourable gestures like suicide, accepts the offer.

Roderick breaks into the vault of the supposedly enchanted castle; instead of finding a treasure, he witnesses a macabre spiritual procession that reveals his fate, which is to be defeated by the Moors and to lose his Christian kingdom to the forces of Islam.

Together, Julianus and Muly Mumen defeat Roderick; but the Moorish king quickly betrays his new ally, blinding Julianus and cutting out Jacinta's tongue. Margaretta meets Dionisa escorting Antonio, who has been wounded in the battle. He dies of his wounds. Dionisa calls Margaretta "a lusty stout virago," and suggests they marry each other and "beget chimeras." Instead, the two women stab themselves over Antonio's body.

Muly Mumen offers the blinded Julianus a chance for revenge, arming the general and letting him attack his tormentor. But his ploy is a cruel joke, in which Julianus stabs his own daughter. She dies in his arms, and he dies of grief. Muly Mumen ends the play by setting off to pursue the fleeing Roderick and consolidate his conquest of the kingdom.

Racism
Rowley consistently characterizes the Moors as "black," and portrays them as stereotypical villains, bloodthirsty and treacherous. In this he reflects the typical attitudes of his time, as expressed in plays like Lust's Dominion, Peele's The Battle of Alcazar, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus among other works that include Moors and North African Muslims. Rowley modifies the stereotype somewhat in his portrayal of Margaretta's serving maid Fydella, a young Moorish woman who is courageous and fiercely devoted to her mistress.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. JYolkowski // talk 13:27, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Baptist Lui Ming Choi Secondary School
This is yet-another-school promotion page. Most of the contents seem to be taken form a student's handbook. Not encyclopedic --Ragib 00:21, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete: Non notable, google returns only 1000 hits and most are blogs and trivial list of schools or student clubs. --Ragib 00:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. If you think this will be deleted, you haven't been looking at VfD recently. The article needs cleanup, not a delete. There is ample verifiable information here. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:58, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep.... =/ -- Christopher Parham (talk) 01:00, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * Keep, and cleanup. Verifiable, important topic. See also Schools/Arguments (but not Schools/Arguments). Kappa 01:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with Kappa. -- Un  focused  02:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, informative and establishes notability. Gazpacho 02:46, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I would really love to see more concrete policies on what we will and will not keep. Voting on these schools one by one is tiresome. Kappa's reference is interesting, but not policy. No vote from me for now. Force10 04:55, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain. Refer to Schools and please think three times before nominating a school article for deletion. All such debates will end with a "no consensus". Sjakkalle 06:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - no harm in keeping. Rangerdude 06:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * The article in its current form is far, far too granular in level of detail, and virtually guaranteed to become out of date and incorrect unless someone actively promises to maintain it. Average Earthman 08:56, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into appropriate location and delete. Transwiki to Wikistudents cold be a good idea as well - Skysmith 09:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Has anyone checked this on Google for a copyvio? It looks very suspect - I doubt anyone would actually go to that amount of work as a starting point on a high school. Harro5 09:53, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with Kappa. -- Lochaber 14:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Damn but it feels like a copyvio -- but I can't find anything.  Might be from a brocure, or it might be a translation of the school website. --Carnildo 18:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no evidence of notability. --W(t) 21:18, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * keep can we please stop this?  go to wikipedia:schools instead Yuckfoo 21:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The article needs to be cleaned-up though. --IncMan 22:03, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but someone should edit this down. A detailed staff listing is NOT encyclopedic. DS1953 22:09, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep trying to delete schools. It's a safer release for your destructive urges.  — Teknic T-M-C 23:26, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I have wikified, encyclopedified, and greatly trimmed the original article. — Teknic T-M-C 01:46, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, clean-up, and edit. Double Blue  (Talk) 23:39, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notable, could use some clean-up but definitely should stay. -CunningLinguist 02:59, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, clean-up, and edit. --JuntungWu 10:11, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete yet another high school. Denni ☯ 20:07, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
 * Keep Please stop nominating school articles. It is becoming more and more clear that doing so is a waste of everyone's time. CalJW 23:27, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and continue to refine. Use Schools' guidelines, stop wasting time on fruitless VfD nominations. --BaronLarf 01:45, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but with reservations. —RaD Man (talk 07:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep, most schools listed for Vfd are because of lack of notability, but now you want to bring it down because the detail is so much, it is too notable? What kind of hypocrisy is this? I am reminded of a fable concerning a man, his son, and his donkey. Especially concerning notability: its a school in Hong Kong, not in the US, and hence the notability is raised even higher as it is an article attacking Systemic bias and even further, a great example of a Christian school in a Chinese culture within an authoritarian China. Yes, it needs to be copyedited (so things don't go out of date, ie. is the prinicipal of *add in year here*, rather than "current principal"), but it seems good enough. The very act of its actions concerning Tiananmen while being in China is an interesting issue, as well. Keep, definitely. You deletionists have gone out of your minds! -- Natalinasmpf 01:36, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. There is a place for school articles on Wikipedia.Pufferfish101 22:10, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Ketsuban (is 1337) 03:28, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Must keep: There are a lot of articles about schools in Wikipedia. If you want to delete this article, then does that mean we have to delete ALL of them? Besides that, this article is pretty long. It can be seen that the writers have paid a lot effort in it. Please respect the effort of the writers. I think all of us don't want other people to delete an article that we have spend a lot of effort to write. Also, Wikipedia should include all kinds of information, including information about schools. If you think this article is a "school promotion", then try to modify / clean up to make it a more contented article. But anyway, I truely believe that those people who started this article did not aim at having an advertisement for the school. This is a very predigious school in the area. I see no points for deleting this article just because it is school-related. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.231.1.231 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 10 Jun 2005
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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