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ビュシー・ダンボワーズと『ビュシー・ダンボワーズの復讐』のあらすじ
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A poor soldier lies in a forest glade while a prince offers him a fortune to join a court of knives.
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ビュシー・ダンボワーズと『ビュシー・ダンボワーズの復讐』 in short
The two plays tell one story from opposite sides. In the first, a penniless soldier is lifted by a prince and sets the court on fire with his talent, his temper and his love for another man's wife. Rivals and a jealous husband close in, and his proud claim to be a king unto himself is tested to the limit.
What ビュシー・ダンボワーズと『ビュシー・ダンボワーズの復讐』 is about
A poor soldier lies on the ground in a forest glade. A prince walks up and tells him to rise. Within days that soldier is striding into the French court and courting the wife of its most powerful duke. How does a man rise so fast, and what does the rise cost him?
Bussy D'Ambois and its sequel, The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois, are two tragedies by George Chapman, who also translated Homer. The first play builds on a real swordsman at the court of Henry III. The second shifts to a brother whom Chapman invented. You get duels, secret lovers, spies, ghosts and a conjured demon, and you follow the arguments one scene at a time.
対象読者. Readers drawn to court intrigue, swordplay, ghosts and daring speeches will love these plays. So will admirers of Elizabethan poetry that wrestles with honor, revenge and loyalty.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A poor soldier is lifted by a prince
The first play opens with Bussy D'Ambois alone and poor in a glade near the court. He speaks bitterly about a world where fortune, not reason, decides who rises. Great men, he says, are like colossal statues, grand outside and filled with mortar and lead within.
Monsieur, the king's brother, finds him there. Monsieur is ambitious, and he wants fierce men gathered around him. He urges Bussy to go to court. Bussy answers with a sharp portrait of court life, where a man learns to smile on command, flatter lords and hear crimes explained until he can commit them. Monsieur promises to send help.
Help arrives in Maffe, Monsieur's steward, who sneers as he hands over a thousand crowns. Bussy strikes him and drives him off, because he will not hear his patron's generosity belittled. Bussy is proud and quick with his hands, and Monsieur is buying a weapon.
A rise built on another man's purpose always carries a price.
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Bussy courts the Duchess and defies Guise
At court, Monsieur presents his new friend to the King.
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Six swordsmen fight and the king grants a pardon
The duel is not shown on stage.
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Tamyra, the Friar and the secret vault
Tamyra, Countess of Montsurry, has met Bussy only briefly, and she has called him too forward.
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Honest speech wins the king and enrages the nobles
The King now calls Bussy his eagle and asks him to speak plainly.
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A paper, a spirit and a plan to smile
At the banquet, Monsieur hands Montsurry a paper, says it concerns his wife, and walks away.
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Clermont enters, a philosopher who must avenge
The sequel begins after the murder of Bussy, and it opens with talk, not swordplay.
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The trap at Cambrai and the rescue by Guise
Baligny tells the King that Clermont belongs to the faction of Guise and must be arrested.
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Honor, revenge and the king inside every man
Both plays ask when a private wrong justifies private justice.
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A high style, ghosts and borrowed ideas
Chapman writes in a high, crowded style.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Bussy D'Ambois A poor, proud soldier who rises at court through Monsieur's favor and trusts his sword and his own sense of honor above any law.
- Monsieur The King's brother, ambitious and scheming, who raises Bussy as a useful weapon and then wants him gone.
- Tamyra Countess of Montsurry, torn between duty and a sudden passion, and clever enough to defend herself when her secret is threatened.
- Duke of Guise The great nobleman whom Bussy insults, powerful and factional in the first play and thoughtful and friendly in the second.
- Montsurry Tamyra's husband, a count who loves his wife and whose trust is poisoned by Monsieur's paper.
- Clermont D'Ambois Bussy's brother, a learned Stoic who would rather debate virtue than fight and who is urged by a ghost to avenge his brother.
- Baligny Bussy's brother in law and a court spy who serves the King and pretends to serve Guise.
- Charlotte Bussy's fierce sister, who demands that her husband and her brother carry out the vow of revenge.
How it ends (spoiler)
In the first play, Montsurry forces Tamyra to lure Bussy into an ambush. Bussy meets his death in the ambush, and his dying curse against Monsieur is recalled when Monsieur's death is reported in the sequel. Montsurry orders Tamyra to leave his house forever. In the sequel, Clermont fights Montsurry, who forgives them before he dies. News comes that the King has had Guise murdered, and Clermont kills himself to follow his lord. Others retreat to convents.
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『ビュシー・ダンボワーズと『ビュシー・ダンボワーズの復讐』』についての質問
What is Bussy D'Ambois about?
It follows a penniless soldier who rises at the French court under Monsieur, quarrels with the Duke of Guise and falls in love with Tamyra, the Countess of Montsurry. His pride and his secret love draw powerful enemies against him.
Is Bussy D'Ambois a true story?
It is based on Louis de Clermont, called Bussy d'Amboise, a real swordsman at the court of Henry III. Chapman changes places and details, and the sequel's hero Clermont D'Ambois is his own invention.
What is The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois about?
It follows Clermont, Bussy's brother, a philosopher urged by his brother's ghost to avenge him. He is trapped at Cambrai, freed by Guise and drawn into a plan against the Count of Montsurry.
Who is Clermont D'Ambois?
He is Bussy's brother, an invented character who is learned, calm and Stoic. He draws on the teachings of Epictetus and, like Hamlet, is slow to act on the ghost's command.
Are these plays worth reading today?
They offer duels, ghosts, secret love and arguments about honor and law, all in energetic verse. Reading both lets you compare a hero of passion with a hero of reason.
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Chapman, George. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/bussy-dambois-and-the-revenge-of-bussy-dambois.
Chapman, G. (2026). Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/bussy-dambois-and-the-revenge-of-bussy-dambois
Chapman, George. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/bussy-dambois-and-the-revenge-of-bussy-dambois.
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author = {Chapman, George},
title = {Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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}
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