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  • ‘History of My Life’ by Giacomo Casanova

    • June 19, 2017
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    When we mentioned to people that we were putting together a graphic novel on Casanova there was a certain amount of wink winking and nudge nudging. Casanova the archetypal womaniser is what comes to most people’s minds. And it is true, he was a man who was fascinated by love and love-making. In terms of
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  • Proairetic code

    • June 6, 2020
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    When the French statesman Talleyrand the Austrian diplomat Metternich queried “What did he mean by that?”.  Such is the relationship between the creator and the audience.  The audience knows that in this fictional world nothing happens by accident.  Any event, no matter how innocuously seeming, is liable to have some more significant purpose, and part
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  • Casanova’s Facade

    • May 30, 2020
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    The surface Casanova presents to outsiders is one of supreme confidence.  The audience understands from the beginning that this is only partly true.  The conflict between this public persona and private reality adds interest in a couple of ways.  Firstly, in how it will play out.  To what extent will the inconsistencies and contradictions reveal
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  • Rough Justice

    • May 23, 2020
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    By the standards of his time, Casanova would not have been regarded as an overly aggressive man.  He would not, for example, physically coerce a woman into having sex.  If she resisted and he could not persuade her to change her mind then he would not persevere.  This was very different to the attitudes of
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