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===Antonio=== Antonio is a corrupt [[senator]] who is sexually involved with the [[courtesan]] Aquilina: in the prologue of ''Venice Preserv’d'', Otway describes Antonio as “a Senator that keeps a whore/ In [[Venice]] none of a higher office bore. / To lewdness every night the lecher ran;/ Show me, all London, such another man, /”.<ref>Otway, Thomas. "Venice Preserv'd." ''The Broadview Anthology of Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century Drama''. Concise ed. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001. 381–426.</ref> Otway's invitation to find a “such another man” has allowed several critics to connect Senator Antonio with [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], who was a [[Whig (British political party)|Whig]] politician.<ref>Bywaters, David. "Venice, Its Senate, and Its Plot in Otway's Venice Preserv'd." Modern Philology 80.3 (1983): 256.</ref> Antonio's key scene in ''Venice Preserv’d'' is the "Nicky Nacky" scene where Antonio attempts foreplay with Aquilina by pretending to be a bull, a toad, and a dog. According to Derek H. Hughes, Antonio's relationship with Aquilina mirrors other relationships in the play by portraying prostitution, submission, and self-abasement, which can be subtly seen in the relationships between Renault and Belvidera, Jaffeir and Pierre, and Jaffeir and Belvidera.<ref>Hughes, Derek. "A New Look at Venice Preserv'd." ''Studies in English Literature'', 1500–1900 11.3 (1971): 437.</ref>
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