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Faces
- April 6, 2019
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- Category: Character Focus
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A distinctive feature of ‘Casanova in Paris’ is the appearance of the characters. In Carl Doherty’s review for ‘Shelf Abuse’(here), he writes: ‘Butters’ characters are largely repulsive; crooked and bulbous noses looming over uneven teeth amidst misshapen faces. While Hollywood and BBC dramas may still seek to celebrate the fashions and décor enjoyed by -
‘Casanova, Art, and Eroticism’
- March 30, 2019
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- Category: Casanova
“In all its splendor and misery, love dominates the life of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). As the hero of the memoirs he started writing in 1789, when he was sixty-four and living in exile in Bohemia, Casanova performs as ardent lover, callous libertine, amiable friend, and suitor wronged. His amorous adventures begin at the tender age -
D’Urfe and Francoise
- March 2, 2019
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A child of the theatre, a libertine and with a distinct live and let live attitude, Casanova was adept at moving amongst people who inhabited very different social worlds, whether of high status or low, whether respectable or subversive. It is this latter world, the world of the subversive, of the clandestine, which is represented
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