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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... natural . 35 It is thus perpet- ually — and vexatiously - debased by the artist's fall from grace . It is also likely ... nature , art is repeatedly figured in The Tempest as a garment that may be worn or removed at will . Prospero ...
... natural . 35 It is thus perpet- ually — and vexatiously - debased by the artist's fall from grace . It is also likely ... nature , art is repeatedly figured in The Tempest as a garment that may be worn or removed at will . Prospero ...
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... nature is bearing and pushing you into that glorious school , which you would never have entered of your own free will " ( 837 ) . As Montaigne sees it , possibly the prime lesson of nature's school applies not only in Prospero's ...
... nature is bearing and pushing you into that glorious school , which you would never have entered of your own free will " ( 837 ) . As Montaigne sees it , possibly the prime lesson of nature's school applies not only in Prospero's ...
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... Nature even if it alters fallen nature , since the alteration is , morally , for the better — that is , intent on teaching us to follow " our erected wit " ( 86 ) . This natural basis of art , together with the poet's stature as ...
... Nature even if it alters fallen nature , since the alteration is , morally , for the better — that is , intent on teaching us to follow " our erected wit " ( 86 ) . This natural basis of art , together with the poet's stature as ...
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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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