Ebook: Shakespeare's names
Author: Maguire Laurie E., Shakespeare William
- Tags: Shakespeare William -- 1564-1616 -- Language. Names Personal in literature. English language -- Etymology -- Names. Language and languages in literature. Characters and characteristics in literature. Literature and folklore. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. DRAMA -- Shakespeare. Shakespeare William -- Namen. Shakespe
- Series: Oxford Shakespeare topics
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford
- Language: English
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This unusual and fascinating book convinces readers that names matter in Shakespeare's plays - and that playing with names is a serious business. The focus is Shakespeare - in particular, case-studies of Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida - but the book also shows. what Shakespeare inherited and where the topic Read more...
Abstract: This unusual and fascinating book convinces readers that names matter in Shakespeare's plays - and that playing with names is a serious business. The focus is Shakespeare - in particular, case-studies of Romeo and Juliet, Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well, and Troilus and Cressida - but the book also shows. what Shakespeare inherited and where the topic developed after him. - ;How do names attach themselves to particular objects and people and does this connection mean anything? This is a question which goes as far back as Plat