Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 250 Seiten Why do characters named Antonio proliferate on the English Renaissance stage? Why are they so often paired with other characters named Sebastian? And more significantly, why are they repeatedly characterized by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as fools for love? Particular Saints draws on church history, art history, and theater history to address these questions by illustrating that Renaissance stage Antonios are a type, representing a tradition familiar to early modern audiences and exploited by Shakespeare in portraying his four major characters named Antonio. Such characters ultimately derive from the rich medieval iconography and hagiography of Saint Anthony of Egypt. How this knowledge reinforms our late-twentieth-century understanding of the four plays in question is addressed in separate chapters that range widely across each work: The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. |
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... , in other words , stir up all manner of questions about love , both divine and human . Although that love is rarely explicitly Christian , the example of Christ's self - sacrifice is nearly always implied as its model 14 PARTICULAR SAINTS.
... , in other words , stir up all manner of questions about love , both divine and human . Although that love is rarely explicitly Christian , the example of Christ's self - sacrifice is nearly always implied as its model 14 PARTICULAR SAINTS.
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... Christ as human and divine . " 3 More recently , and echoing intervening critical works , Maurice Hunt has argued that Sebastian " is , after all , the epiphanic character suggested by the play's title . " 4 But these assumptions are ...
... Christ as human and divine . " 3 More recently , and echoing intervening critical works , Maurice Hunt has argued that Sebastian " is , after all , the epiphanic character suggested by the play's title . " 4 But these assumptions are ...
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... Christ called him to a solitary and ascetic life in the desert ; Anthony accepted by giving his earthly possessions to the needy and by enduring the constant worldly temptations of the devil . His sole defense against his nemesis was a ...
... Christ called him to a solitary and ascetic life in the desert ; Anthony accepted by giving his earthly possessions to the needy and by enduring the constant worldly temptations of the devil . His sole defense against his nemesis was a ...
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... , chose the likes of this prominent saint for a model of Christian humanist wise folly . Simply put , Saint Anthony had forfeited worldly delights in imitation of Christ , but not without an ongoing and intense struggle 26 PARTICULAR ...
... , chose the likes of this prominent saint for a model of Christian humanist wise folly . Simply put , Saint Anthony had forfeited worldly delights in imitation of Christ , but not without an ongoing and intense struggle 26 PARTICULAR ...
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... Christ alone for help , and seek comfort in medi- tating on the suffering Christ's incomprehensible sacrifice . 26 Long before More adopted Anthony's name , however , he was intro- duced to teachings about the saint through direct ...
... Christ alone for help , and seek comfort in medi- tating on the suffering Christ's incomprehensible sacrifice . 26 Long before More adopted Anthony's name , however , he was intro- duced to teachings about the saint through direct ...
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A foolish consistency Antonio and Alienation in The Merchant of Venice | 51 |
Willing love Antonio Viola and Epiphany in Twelfth Night | 88 |
The worlds great snare Antony Cleopatra and Game | 116 |
Prosperos false brother Shakespeares Final Antonio | 154 |
No way out but through Shakespeares Antonios and the Wisdom of This World | 186 |
Notes | 193 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 241 |
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Seite 168 - O, wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pros.
Seite 148 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
Seite 161 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Seite 62 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Seite 126 - The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly : yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Seite 99 - And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art; For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit.
Seite 119 - Upon a tawny front : his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust.
Seite 103 - I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion. 60 Clo. Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
Seite 54 - I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. Solar. Your mind is tossing on the ocean ; There, where your argosies...