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Shakespeare, Venice, and Paradoxical Stages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10412475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter G Platt (Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-154 |
| Publication date | 2001-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1262222 |
| OpenAlex | W2084664955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
This essay begins by providing some early modern definitions, as well as a brief history, of paradox in the Renaissance. But paradox could be more than a rhetorical figure. Thus, the paper turns to sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century descriptions of Venice in English and explores how a geographical site could do the work of the verbal paradox. The essay then reads Othello's complicated epistemological, ontological, and sexual issues through Venice's symbolic geography. Finally, it will suggest briefly that the stage — and particularly the interaction between audience and play — is also a site of paradox, a place where spectators, dazzled and destabilized by unresolved and unresolvable problems, are forced to reevaluate their cognitive and cultural worlds
Art · Art history · Epistemology · Literature · Rhetorical question · The Renaissance · History · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |