The Shakespeare Sisterhood: Portia
This lady, daughter of Cato, and wife of Marcus Brutus, is introduced with grateful effect in the tragedy of Julius Caesar, affording relief, by her truly feminine presence, to that painful record of "treason, stratagems," and foul conspiracy.Portia is the just impersonation of a matron "after the high Roman fashion," -- carefully finished, and severely classic in its lightest touches. Full of sensibility, tenderness, and all the timid flutterings of her sex, she yet entertains lofty ideas of the heroic fortitude, severe virtues, and unflinching nerve that become "Cato's daughter," and "the woman that Lord Brutus took to wife;" and in her unavailing self-discipline to attain those stoical perfections, she presents one more example of the ineffectuality of the "schools" to divert the natural bent of the female character.
"For the picture of this wedded couple, at once august and tender," says Campbell, "human nature, and the dignity of conjugal faith, are indebted;" it is almost the only instance, among all of Shakespeare's married people, in which, long after the honeymoon has departed, the wife is neither the master, slave, nor pr
Portia, the wife of Brutus, a character in Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare
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Illustrator: J. W. Wright
Engraver: W. H. Egleton
Original Illustration Size: x mm / 6″18 x 5″6
Illustration Number: 36/48
Source Text: The heroines of Shakspeare: comprising the principal female characters in the plays of the great poet. Engraved in the highest style of art, from drawings by eminent artists. With letterpress extracts from the text, in English and French; and critical essays on each of the characters.
Published: London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, Limited [?]
File:Portia, Wife of Brutus, Julius Caesar, John William
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