History HumiliationConga / Theater

* Shylock, in ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'': his daughter elopes with someone he loathes; he lost his case, losing even his rightful loan; and the court threatens to confiscate his property, forcing him to [[FairForItsDay denounce Judaism and take up Christianity.]]
* Falstaff in ''Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'' gets nearly drowned, beaten up, and generally humiliated all through the play.
* Baron Ochs in ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier'': first, the cute little chambermaid not only turns out to be a man in disguise, but a man who the Baron hates, and who he knows is the rival for his fiancee. Then his would-be father-in-law announces that the engagement is off: the Baron loses a beautiful young wife and the sizable dowry she would have brought. His reputation takes a hit: his unsavory character will be known to all and sundry, if the two scandalmongers involved in this plot have anything to say about it. His relative the Marschallin dismisses him coldly, perhaps making it impossible for him to ever enter Viennese society again. And to add insult to injury, he ends up having to cover the bill for the whole experience.
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' has various examples:
** Viscount De Valvert goes through one in at Act I Scene IV, being defeated by Cyrano in a VolleyingInsults competition and then in a SwordFight.
** De Guiche is subjected to another from Act I through Act IV by Cyrano, Roxane, Captain Carbon and all of the Gascon Cadets.
** Poor Raguenau is cuckolded, abandoned by his [[YourCheatingHeart wife Lisa]] and ruined by his own FanDumb [[TakeOurWordForIt between Act II and Act III]], so much that he intends an InterruptedSuicide.
** Acts II through V are this for [[spoiler: Cyrano. In Act II, his hope of being loved by Roxanne is shattered. In Act III, he wins for Christian Roxanne's kiss. In Act IV, he's forced to sacrifice his happiness to honor Christian's death. And in Act V, he's denied the heroic death he always desired and discovers that Moliere stole a scene from him.]]
* [[Theatre/TheBookofMormon Elder Price]] has had blood sprayed in his face from a guy being shot in the head, the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream reprimanding him for [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandoning his companion]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution that one lie he told when he was younger]], and had his innocence and his belief [[spoiler:literally [[AssShove shoved up the ass]]]].
* In ''{{Theatre/Arcadia}}'', Bernard discovers that [[spoiler:Byron didn't kill Chater]] just before his new book is about to hit the shelves, but ''after'' he's touted it ("I was on ''The Breakfast Hour''!"), is blackmailed into admitting his mistake in an open letter in the newspaper, is forced to have his picture taken for the newspaper for a separate event (though it will probably appear in the same edition), and is finally caught ''in flagrante delicto'' in the hermitage with Chloe.
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* Falstaff in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' gets nearly drowned, beaten up, and generally humiliated all through the play.

* CyranoDeBergerac has various examples:

* Baron Ochs in ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier'': first, the cute little chambermaid not only turns out to be a man in disguise, but a man who the Baron hates, and who he knows is the rival for the his fiancee. Then his would-be father-in-law announces that the engagement is off: the Baron loses a beautiful young wife and the sizable dowry she would have brought. His reputation takes a hit: his unsavory character will be known to all and sundry, if the two scandalmongers involved in this plot have anything to say about it. His relative the Marschallin dismisses him coldly, perhaps making it impossible for him to ever enter Viennese society again. And to add insult to injury, he ends up having to cover the bill for the whole experience.

** Viscount De Valvert gets through one in at Act I Scene IV being defeated by Cyrano in a VolleyingInsults competition and then in a SwordFight.
** De Guiche is subjected to another through Act I to Act IV by Cyrano, Roxane, Captain Carbon and all of the Gascon Cadets.
** Poor Raguenau is cuckholded, abandoned by his [[YourCheatingHeart wife Lisa]] and ruined by his own FanDumb [[TakeOurWordForIt between Act II and Act III]], so much that he intents a InterruptedSuicide.

* Baron Ochs, in ''Theatre/DerRosenkavalier'': first, the cute little chambermaid not only turns out to be a man in disguise, but a man who the Baron hates, and who he knows is the rival for the his fiancee. Then his would-be father-in-law announces that the engagement is off: the Baron loses a beautiful young wife and the sizable dowry she would have brought. His reputation takes a hit: his unsavory character will be known to all and sundry, if the two scandalmongers involved in this plot have anything to say about it. His relative the Marschallin dismisses him coldly, perhaps making it impossible for him to ever enter Viennese society again. And to add insult to injury, he ends up having to cover the bill for the whole experience.

** Acts II through V are this for [[spoiler: Cyrano. In Act II, his hope of being loved by Roxana is shattered. At Act III, he wins for Christian Roxannes kiss. At Act IV, hes forced to sacrifice his happiness to honor Christian death. And at Act V, hes denied the heroic death he always desired and discovers that Moliere stole a scene from him.]]

* [[TheBookofMormon Elder Price]] has had blood sprayed in his face from a guy being shot in the head, the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream reprimanding him for [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandoning his companion]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution that one lie he told when he was younger]], and had his innocence and his belief [[spoiler:literally [[AssShove shoved up the ass]]]].