Don Adriano de Armado: a Spanish Character on the English Stage
In this paper, I consider the Spanish character staged in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Don Adriano de Armado, to study the very specific way Shakespeare uses ethnotypes. To do so, I will first recall a possible reference for Armado: Antonio Pérez was a contemporary at the court of England and Shakespeare u...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare
2015
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | In this paper, I consider the Spanish character staged in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Don Adriano de Armado, to study the very specific way Shakespeare uses ethnotypes. To do so, I will first recall a possible reference for Armado: Antonio Pérez was a contemporary at the court of England and Shakespeare uses this topical reference to fashion his own ethnotype representing not just a Spaniard, but Spaniards in general. Shakespeare then relies on this ethnotype to stage Spain itself through a synecdochic shift and to present his contemporaries with a cathartic representation of England’s most feared enemy. I will then argue that Shakespeare creates an ethnotype only the better to deconstruct its alienness by showing that everyone, both on stage and out stage, is his or her own version of Don Armado. |
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