Antonio merchant of venice gay

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Download references. Skip to main content. Given their rich interpretive potentialities, queer theory and emotionality studies seem like natural critical bedfellows. More specifically, what I will attempt to do in the following paragraphs is to queer the emotion of male same-sex love in Merchant in a way that, as far as I have been able to discern, has not been done previously.

Patricia, A. In: White, R. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. 3 See Alan Sinfield, "How to Read iThe Merchant of Venice Without Being Heterosexist" in Alternative Shakespeares 2, Terence Hawkes, ed. Unable to display preview. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

We leave Antonio in much the same position of open-ended intimacy that characterises the other Antonio’s situation at the end of The Merchant of Venice: a spouse-without-portfolio, or floating lover, within a conventional heteroerotic marriage between a wealthy heiress and a somewhat useless charmer.

My exemplar for this exercise will be The Merchant of Venicea romantic comedy that, along with Twelfth Night and As You Like Ithas garnered significant attention in recent times because of its obvious homoerotic valences threaded throughout the play, valences that are most apparent in the representation of the characters of Antonio and Bassanio.

A couple of years ago, I went to a stage performance of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in which Antonio and Bassanio were portrayed as being in a gay relationship together since before the s. Antonio is a close friend of Bassanio, another important character in the play, and their element of the story.

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Institutional subscriptions. Therefore what I seek to accomplish in this chapter is to bring the imperatives of both fields of inquiry into direct contact as they relate to Shakespearean drama. He is portrayed as a wealthy and respected merchant residing in Venice, known for his generosity and melancholic disposition.

Palgrave Macmillan, London. Antonio is one of the central characters in William Shakespeare 's play The Merchant of Venice. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. Print ISBN : Online ISBN : Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:.

The Homosexual Relationship Between Antonio and Bassanio in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Tsun-Hsien Tsai Sophomore Student, Department of English National Changhua University of Education There are many pairs of male adults with honorable masculine friendships appearing in William Shakespeare’s popular plays, such as Antonio and Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice, Antonio.

(London and New York: Routledge, ), Many essays have dealt with Antonio's homosexuality. Download preview PDF. Google Scholar.