The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria: A Drama of Early Christian RomeCalderón de la Barca, Pedro
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The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria: A Drama of Early Christian Rome
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Christian martyrs -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Act 1, Scene 2. "My blessings on your choice and you! / . . . Are
nothing to a pretty face." A Spanish text gives Escarpin seventeen
lines here, rather than five. The last dozen lines contain a story of a
clever vixen and a comely partridge.
Act 1, Scene 3. The line "Yes, God and Man is Christ" is not indented
in the printed source, but logically should be, and is in a Spanish text
of the play. I have indented it above.
Act 1, Scene 3. The line "Why delay? Arrest them." in the printed
source is shown as two lines ("Why delay? / Arrest them."), but this
seems to be a printer's error as it breaks the asonante verse pattern.
Act 1, Scene 3. In order to preserve the verse, I have indented the
line "Why, why, O heavens!"
Act 2, Scene 1. I have indented the line "What then?"
Act 2, Scene 1. With the line "Clemency in fine had won," there is
another apparent discrepancy in the play. Polemius is angry at
Chrysanthus when the soldiers return in Act 1, Scene 3.
Act 2, Scene 3. In the line "Here the jasmin doubly white," the word
jasmine is spelt without an "e."
Act 2, Scene 3. In Nisida's song, in the line "The bless`ed rapture of
forgetting", the printed source has "blessed" without an accent on the
second "e." Because this line is repeated twice more in the scene with
the accent, I have added it to this first instance in the text above.
Act 2, Scene 3. The printed source lists Escarpin as the speaker of the
lines "My lord, oh! hearken / To my song once more." A Spanish text
indicates that Nisida speaks here, as is only logical, so I have listed
Nisida as speaker in the text above.
Act 2, Scene 3. There seems to be a gap in the dialog after "Not
myself, no aid is granted." A Spanish text has four additional lines
here: [D.] Luego tu tan de su parte / Estas, que a ellos los ensalzas?
/ [C.] Si; que he visto muchas cosas / Hoy en mi favor obradas.
Act 3, Scene 1. In a Spanish text, after the line "I could listen to
such nonsense?" Escarpin has five lines of monolog.
Act 3, Scene 1. In a Spanish text the line "Whence did sound the
voice?" is spoken by Chrysanthus, which would naturally agree with
Polemius' reply to Chrysanthus immediately below. Also, just before
this line, Chrysanthus says: Sin mi me ha dejado a mi.
Act 3, Scene 1. In the line "The two lover saints of Heaven." the
phrase "lover saints" is not hyphenated, although the same phrase is
hyphenated just before the end of the play. The Spanish text has "Los
dos amantes del cielo" in both places.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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