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  • Jeanette

    • July 4, 2020
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    Jeanette is one of the minor characters of ‘Casanova in Paris’ who becomes an innocent victim of the spy-master rivalry between Bechard and De Bernis.  Such characters’ usefulness, however, can go beyond their relatively small contribution to the storyline by highlighting some other aspect of the narrative’s landscape.  In this case, Jeanette’s belief that her
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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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