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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... saintly , less capable of being worshiped . Yet , in the process , some of them raised another problem , that of ambiguity in tone : a saint like Anthony , once shown in a human light , can appear all too human to in- spire unqualified ...
... saintly , less capable of being worshiped . Yet , in the process , some of them raised another problem , that of ambiguity in tone : a saint like Anthony , once shown in a human light , can appear all too human to in- spire unqualified ...
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... saintly , and capable of perceiving closely hidden treason or of in- spiring courage in a desperate army . He is ... saintly , even martyred , demeanor and less than saintly behavior , an incongruity that characterizes , for ...
... saintly , and capable of perceiving closely hidden treason or of in- spiring courage in a desperate army . He is ... saintly , even martyred , demeanor and less than saintly behavior , an incongruity that characterizes , for ...
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... saintly type if only in that he turns it inside out . The Tempest's Antonio has been tempted and won over by the demon greed , withdraw- ing from society in a perverse parody of saintly monasticism ; now he tempts Prospero to similarly ...
... saintly type if only in that he turns it inside out . The Tempest's Antonio has been tempted and won over by the demon greed , withdraw- ing from society in a perverse parody of saintly monasticism ; now he tempts Prospero to similarly ...
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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