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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... alien- ation and unpredictability portended even by the well - adjusted Bassanio as he greets his friends : " Good signiors both , when shall we laugh ? say , when ? / You grow exceeding strange . Must it be so ? " ( 66-67 ) . All human ...
... alien- ation and unpredictability portended even by the well - adjusted Bassanio as he greets his friends : " Good signiors both , when shall we laugh ? say , when ? / You grow exceeding strange . Must it be so ? " ( 66-67 ) . All human ...
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... alien " to whom she finally , explicitly , gives the name ( 349 ) . Many of Portia's statements in 4.1 are capable of being read as judiciously inclusive of Shylock's sentiments ; some of those statements may well contradict that ...
... alien " to whom she finally , explicitly , gives the name ( 349 ) . Many of Portia's statements in 4.1 are capable of being read as judiciously inclusive of Shylock's sentiments ; some of those statements may well contradict that ...
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... alien " by prohibiting even that meager distinction , which , though not much , is at least Shylock's proper . Withholding even so much as alien- ation from Shylock , he doubly alienates him ; exacting his own figurative pound of flesh ...
... alien " by prohibiting even that meager distinction , which , though not much , is at least Shylock's proper . Withholding even so much as alien- ation from Shylock , he doubly alienates him ; exacting his own figurative pound of flesh ...
Inhalt
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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