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Article: Shakespeare's Venice. (depiction of Venice, Italy)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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'AH, good old Mantuan, I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice: Venetia, Venetia, Chi non ti vedo, non ti pretia. . . . who understandeth thee not, loves thee not. (Love's Labour's Lost, 4.2.93-98)
Thus the pedant Holofernes, combining two strokes of one-upmanship: all educated people know that Mantuanus is a great writer, and all know that Venice is the place to see on one's Grand Tour. I have nothing to say about Mantuanus, whom I have neglected disgracefully. But the Grand Tour is now coming back, I note, as a shorthand ideal for travellers. And I was in Venice lately, on the lookout for traces of Shakespearean involvement.
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