Word: antonios
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THIS MERCHANT OF VENICE is prime evidence for the view that Shakespeare should be produced on stage as a necessary adjunct to classroom study. The text appears to be a mare's nest of incompatible themes and emotional effections, careening from Shylock's tragedy to Bassanio's comedy to Antonio's romance. But in a good production--and the Loeb mainstage production is a very good production indeed--these problems are reconciled in performance...
...this view leads to the total suppression of an early Shakespeare masterpiece, at best to a crushing overemphasis on Shylock's role, so that the play becomes a one-man tragedy. Ask most people the name of the merchant of Venice, and they will answer "Shylock" more frequently than "Antonio." Antonio has not passed into the language as a generic term; "Shylock" is one of the most durable neologisms we owe to Shakespeare. The way that Shylock engrosses the play, crowding out the rest of the characters, is not an exclusively modern event (it is probably part of the romantic...
...possible 490,157 in the balloting. The Spanish government formally declared Basque independence in Guernica and the ceremonies were held under a tree which was to become the symbol of Basque freedom. For the first time in history the Basque lands became a republic and Jose Antonio Aguirre became the new president. Independence, however, lasted only two short years and perished with the advent of the Spanish Civil...
...inhabitants would decide their political future. Hassan, however, fears voting in the colony would be manipulated by the Algerians, who have strong links to the leftist Polisario Front, the Sahara's best-organized political group. On Saturday, nevertheless, the King received a special envoy from Spain, Cabinet Member Antonio Carro Martinez for further talks on the crisis...
...Cubans tried to pass themselves off as mulattoes from the Cape Verde Islands-a flimsy charade since they speak Spanish, not Portuguese.) The Portuguese government, though nominally neutral in the struggle, has also leaned toward the M.P.L.A., partly because M.P.L.A. Leader Neto is a longtime friend of Admiral Antonio Rosa Coutinho, who openly supported the group when he was Portugal's Angolan high commissioner...