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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... earthly temptation , as had their predeces- sor Augustine . Indeed , I think it is largely through Christian humanist authors like More that the conception of Saint Anthony as a wise fool was developed and eventually bequeathed to later ...
... earthly temptation , as had their predeces- sor Augustine . Indeed , I think it is largely through Christian humanist authors like More that the conception of Saint Anthony as a wise fool was developed and eventually bequeathed to later ...
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... earthly play can be more godly than earthly abstinence . Shakespeare's final Antonio , Prospero's brother , retains his affinity with the saintly type if only in that he turns it inside out . The Tempest's Antonio has been tempted and ...
... earthly play can be more godly than earthly abstinence . Shakespeare's final Antonio , Prospero's brother , retains his affinity with the saintly type if only in that he turns it inside out . The Tempest's Antonio has been tempted and ...
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... earthly matters far behind . Or both . In the pagan Mark Antony , who forfeited one third of the world all for Cleopatra , Shakespeare's original audience would also have recognized a typological association with Christ , whose ...
... earthly matters far behind . Or both . In the pagan Mark Antony , who forfeited one third of the world all for Cleopatra , Shakespeare's original audience would also have recognized a typological association with Christ , whose ...
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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