Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 250 sivua 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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... question that assumes many forms across the canon and that surfaces in numerous other conflicts in these four plays - conflicts , for example , between others ' needs and one's own desires , between the ideal and the practical , between ...
... question that assumes many forms across the canon and that surfaces in numerous other conflicts in these four plays - conflicts , for example , between others ' needs and one's own desires , between the ideal and the practical , between ...
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... question indicates her readiness to look beyond misleading racial and cultural dis- tinctions and into the pith of the arguments before her . Yet I would argue , first , that Portia's question is far more complicated in its significance ...
... question indicates her readiness to look beyond misleading racial and cultural dis- tinctions and into the pith of the arguments before her . Yet I would argue , first , that Portia's question is far more complicated in its significance ...
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... question is no doubt partly calculated to produce one effect or another . Finally , no matter how harmless may be Portia's intent , her question cannot avoid all dramatic irony , since to the audience ( at whom Shakespeare aims the joke ) ...
... question is no doubt partly calculated to produce one effect or another . Finally , no matter how harmless may be Portia's intent , her question cannot avoid all dramatic irony , since to the audience ( at whom Shakespeare aims the joke ) ...
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Characters Named Antonio | 20 |
Antonio and Alienation in | 51 |
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Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their Plays Cynthia Lewis Rajoitettu esikatselu - 1997 |
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