Particular Saints: Shakespeare's Four Antonios, Their Contexts, and Their PlaysUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 250 páginas 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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... important emphasis indeed . First , it helps to explain how these saints could become translated into figures suitable for Renaissance secular drama and , at that , drama whose characters in the late sixteenth century were rapidly becom ...
... important emphasis indeed . First , it helps to explain how these saints could become translated into figures suitable for Renaissance secular drama and , at that , drama whose characters in the late sixteenth century were rapidly becom ...
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... important , it is to recognize her " willing love " as a matter of free consent . Twelfth Night envisions a place where the essence of divine love lays claim , albeit imperfectly and inconsistently , to the human spirit . Then it asks ...
... important , it is to recognize her " willing love " as a matter of free consent . Twelfth Night envisions a place where the essence of divine love lays claim , albeit imperfectly and inconsistently , to the human spirit . Then it asks ...
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... important . It looks back to and implicitly comments upon all preceding and conflicting - references to Antony's folly . It is his revisi- tation of Cleopatra in act 5 in the form of the Clown . A production of the play in 1993 by the ...
... important . It looks back to and implicitly comments upon all preceding and conflicting - references to Antony's folly . It is his revisi- tation of Cleopatra in act 5 in the form of the Clown . A production of the play in 1993 by the ...
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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 Pré-visualização limitada - 1997 |
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