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q Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations. Actaeon myth, –, Acts (biblical book): as intertext to Comedy of Errors, –, –, –; and missions to the Ephesians, – Adam, New, in Acts and Comedy of Errors, – Adam and Eve, , , , Aeneid (Virgil): as comedy, ; as intertext , ; as resource on empire, –; ruler in, ; and Tempest, , , , , , , –, , allegory, , All’s Well That Ends Well: background, , n; interdependent worlds in, ; marriage conclusion in, ; pretense by Helena, ; resurrection in, ; role of ruler in, , American Conservatory Theater’s Taming of the Shrew, Amman, Jost, Anabaptists, , , n Andrewes, Lancelot, , –, , , n, n androgyny of Rosalind in As You Like It, Angelico, Fra: Adoration of the Magi (fig. ), –, Antony and Cleopatra, , apocalypses, n apocryphal books and biblical interpretation , archetypes. See patterns and use of myth Ariel (biblical) and prophecy in Tempest , –, n Ariosto, Ludovico: Orlando Furioso, , , n Aristophanes, –, , n Aristotle, art, resources in, asceticism: criticisms of, –; in Measure for Measure, assumed identities and character types, Astraea myth, – Index Index As You Like It, –; “All the world’s a stage” speech, , ; amorous desire for other humans and the divine, ; Arden forest as paradise, –, ; Cain and Abel story in, , , –; character types in, –, , , , ; Cupid in, ; destroying forces in, ; families in, ; interdependent worlds in, ; Jaques as melancholic in, –, –, , , n; marriage conclusion of, , ; mythic world in, , ; and myth of Hercules , –, n; natural law in, ; role of ruler in, , , , , ; and Rosalind’s roles, , –, , , –; symbolic marriage in, –; transformation in, Augustine, , , – Bacon, Francis, –, –, n banquet and feasting in Tempest, , n Beaumont, Francis, beggar children in Twelfth Night, , , , n Benozzo Gozzoli: Procession of the Magus Gaspar (fig. ), –, , betrothals. See marriage and/or feasting conclusions Bible: Acts, –, –, –; as intertext, ; Isaiah, , – , , , n; Jacob-Laban story, –; Leah and Rachel story, , ; letter to Ephesians, ; marriage in, ; misquotation of in Measure for Measure, –, ; pictorial resources, ; Revelation of John, ; Sermon on the Mount, ; Song of Songs/Song of Solomon, , , ; as source, ; unrighteous servant, parable of, ; versions, ; vineyard, parable of, –. See also biblical story biblical hermeneutics, , , n biblical story, –; carrying the fire of breakthrough, ; as comedy , ; as figurative application within the drama on the stage, ; resources, –; uses of, . See also Bible Bloom, Harold, , n Blount,Thomas, Boccaccio, Bocskay, Istvàn, , , Bohannon, Laura, – Book of Common Prayer, , , Botticelli, Sandro: Adoration of the Magi (fig. ), Branagh, Kenneth: Henry V, ; Much Ado About Nothing, – Bramer, Leonaert: The Adoration of the Magi (fig. ), –, Britain as empire, – brotherhood and sisterhood, , . See also Cain and Abel story; family, reconciliation of Burton, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy , Cain and Abel story, ; in As You Like It, , , –; in Hamlet , –, –; Richard II, – Calvinism, , , –. See also Puritanism canon law courts, n [3.15.5.183] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 16:17 GMT) Index canon law vs. civil law, , –, Carnival and Lent, , , n Carracci, Annibale: Hercules at the Crossroads (fig. ), , Catholic empires: background, –, ; and Protestant empires, Catholicism: and asceticism, –; and celebration of the marriage institution, ; and drunkards in Tempest, ; resources for biblical interpretation of, ; and sexual order, ; two faces of, in Much Ado About Nothing, –, Catholic-Protestant disputes: and Battle of Lepanto, ; in Measure for Measure, –. See also faith/ works controversy celibacy and celebration of the marriage institution, – character types: in Comedy of Errors, , , , ; in commonwealth under dux, , ; in Love’s Labour ’s Lost, character types, fusion of, ; as human beings struggling, ; and interior dimensions of, ; in Measure for Measure, –; in Shakespeare’s restructuring of comedy, , Chaucer, Geoffrey: Friar’s Tale, – , ; as intertext, ; Knight’s Tale, , , , , , –, , ; Merchant’s Tale, ; Troilus and Criseyde, “Chinese room” argument and blind Cupid, – Christ-figures: Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, ; Vincentio in Measure for Measure, , . See also rex imago Christi Christianity: Ephesus as model Christian society, –. See also Calvinism; Catholicism; Protestantism ; Puritanism Circe myth. See Proserpina-Circe myth in Midsummer Night’s Dream class, social: in As You Like It, ; in traditional definition of comedy, . See also courtiers and coupling; rulers and leaders Colet, John, colonialism, –, –, – comedy: and failure of ideals, ; in global world, –; as model for society, ; Shakespeare’s restructuring of, –, –; as source, ; traditional definitions of, – The Comedy of Errors, –; Acts (biblical book) as intertext to, – , –, –; and biblical Ephesus, , ; brotherhood and sisterhood in, ; character types in, , , , ; comic inversion in, , ; death of selfishness , ; Diana the triple goddess in, , , ; exorcism in, , –; folly of citizens and passion, ; global interests in, –; interdependent worlds in, ; marriage in, –; mythic world in, ; and New Comedy, , –; production and staging of, , ; providence in, , n; role of ruler in, , , , ; servants in, , n; social institutions and hope in the coming kingdom of God, –; use of emblems in, ; witchcraft in, , Index comic inversion in Comedy of Errors, , commedia dell’arte, , , , –, n commedia...
