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Religion
- April 30, 2022
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Eighteenth-century Europe was an intensely religious place, at least compared to modern Europe. Casanova himself was a believer in God and defended the Catholic Church in his conversations with Voltaire. Its power was not as great as it had once been because of the challenge of the Enlightenment but, nonetheless, it was important to reflect -
Gender and sexuality
- April 2, 2022
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Two overlapping themes throughout ‘Casanova in Paris’ are gender and sexuality, which is almost inevitable given the period and that the main protagonist is Casanova. He had an estranged relationship with his mother (see blog on Zanetta Farussi and long form article on Casanova’s early life) who was an actress when for women the profession -
Preparing lunch
- February 19, 2022
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When you have characters in dialogue within a particular setting over, say, the course of a page of 3 x 3 panels it helps if you can give them something to do while they talk even if what they’re doing is not hugely significant to the narrative (obviously if you can layer other meaning and
