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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... poem found inside the silver casket : There be fools alive , iwis , Silver'd o'er , and so was this . Take what wife you will to bed , I will ever be your head . So be gone , you are sped . ( 68-72 ) These lines assume that Arragon is ...
... poem found inside the silver casket : There be fools alive , iwis , Silver'd o'er , and so was this . Take what wife you will to bed , I will ever be your head . So be gone , you are sped . ( 68-72 ) These lines assume that Arragon is ...
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... poem , some critics maintain that it is significant in Shakespeare's imagination , consistent with , if not proof of , their larger visions of the play . One such critic , for example , sees Portia's father's restriction on her suitors ...
... poem , some critics maintain that it is significant in Shakespeare's imagination , consistent with , if not proof of , their larger visions of the play . One such critic , for example , sees Portia's father's restriction on her suitors ...
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... poem in the silver casket could be read in a less contradictory way : even if you were to wed , you would still be a fool ( and therefore are not worthy of a wife ) . In addition , if this textual detail is indeed contradictory , it may ...
... poem in the silver casket could be read in a less contradictory way : even if you were to wed , you would still be a fool ( and therefore are not worthy of a wife ) . In addition , if this textual detail is indeed contradictory , it may ...
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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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