{"id":429,"date":"2017-05-03T10:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=429"},"modified":"2017-05-03T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T14:50:04","slug":"giovanni-and-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/incest-and-jacobean-tragedy\/giovanni-and-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni and logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Giovanni is a student. The Friar, a prevalent character in the play, is his tutor. Florio, Giovanni and Annabella\u2019s father, without knowing of their incestual relationship, urges his son to \u201cforsake\/ This over-bookish humour\u201d (2.6.114-15). Giovanni makes something that on the surface is irrational&#8211;his desire for his sister&#8211;appear rational by viewing it through different theoretical lenses in act 1, scene 2. Once logically justifying his love to himself, and to his sister, Annabella discloses that she, indeed, harbors desire for her brother. Only after Giovanni\u2019s multifaceted argument supporting his union with Annabella do the two commence their incestuous relationship. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni is a student. The Friar, a prevalent character in the play, is his tutor. Florio, Giovanni and Annabella\u2019s father, without knowing of their incestual relationship, urges his son to \u201cforsake\/ This over-bookish humour\u201d (2.6.114-15). Giovanni makes something that on the surface is irrational&#8211;his desire for his sister&#8211;appear rational by viewing it through different theoretical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incest-and-jacobean-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}