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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... Epiphany in Twelfth Night Disguise in Twelfth Night is sheer , a thin veil like the " cypress ” that , Olivia tells Viola / Cesario , " hides " her " heart " ( 3.1.121-22 ) . Viola , al- though dressed in sturdier male clothing , almost ...
... Epiphany in Twelfth Night Disguise in Twelfth Night is sheer , a thin veil like the " cypress ” that , Olivia tells Viola / Cesario , " hides " her " heart " ( 3.1.121-22 ) . Viola , al- though dressed in sturdier male clothing , almost ...
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... Epiphany but to images of Epiphany as it was kept in [ Shakespeare's ] own time : a period of holiday abandon in which the normal rules and order of life were suspended or else deliberately inverted , in which serious issues and events ...
... Epiphany but to images of Epiphany as it was kept in [ Shakespeare's ] own time : a period of holiday abandon in which the normal rules and order of life were suspended or else deliberately inverted , in which serious issues and events ...
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... Epiphany . The first and best known of such readings is that of Barbara K. Lewalski , who argues that Shakespeare's ... Epiphany : Twelfth Night itself , the feast of the Epiphany , celebrates the discovery of the " True King " in ...
... Epiphany . The first and best known of such readings is that of Barbara K. Lewalski , who argues that Shakespeare's ... Epiphany : Twelfth Night itself , the feast of the Epiphany , celebrates the discovery of the " True King " in ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Characters Named Antonio | 20 |
Antonio and Alienation in | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays Cynthia Lewis Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1997 |
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