Article: Soft touch: on the Renaissance staging and meaning of the "Noli me tangere" icon.(Critical Essay)

In a brief article called "Viola's `Do Not Embrace Me' as Icon" published in the December 1988 issue of Notes and Queries, I argue that Viola's admonition to her newly recovered twin Sebastian in act 5.1.251 of Twelfth Night alludes to the episode in John 20:11-17 where Mary Magdalen, in search of the crucified body of Christ, mistakes the resurrected Christ for the gardener. (1) During a short catechism, Jesus implies the inappropriateness of Mary's tears with the question that, just before, the angels attending the tomb have posed to her: "Woman, why weepest thou?" When Christ calls her by name, she recognizes him as "Rabboni" (Master), and he immediately warns her, ...

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