Shakespeare's NamesOUP Oxford, 11 d’oct. 2007 - 272 pàgines 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 Plato and can still be seen in contemporary society with books of Names to Give Your Baby or Reader's Digest columns of apt names and professions. For the Renaissance the vexed question of naming was a subset of the larger but equally vexed subject of language: is language arbitrary and conventional (it is simply an agreed label for a pre-existing entity) or is it motivated (it creates the entity which it names)? Shakespeare's Names is a book for language-lovers. Laurie Maguire's witty and learned study examines names, their origins, cultural attitudes to them, and naming practices across centuries and continents, exploring what it means for Shakespeare's characters to bear the names they do. She approaches her subject through close analysis of the associations and use of names in a range of Shakespeare plays, and in a range of performances. The focus is Shakespeare, and in particular six key plays: 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. Thus the discussion includes myth, the Bible, Greek literature, psychological analysis, literary theory, social anthropology, etymology, baptismal trends, puns, different cultures' and periods' social practice as regards the bestowing and interpreting of names, and English literature in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; the reader will also find material from contemporary journalism, film, and cartoons. |
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... reference is not simply a one - way joke , a tribute to a friend , but a knowing response to Spanish texts in which ... references to members of the audience ' ( Carey 76 ) . But it has a much longer tradition . The New Testa- ment is ...
... reference is not simply a one - way joke , a tribute to a friend , but a knowing response to Spanish texts in which ... references to members of the audience ' ( Carey 76 ) . But it has a much longer tradition . The New Testa- ment is ...
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... reference to the multiple meanings of his anachronistic name : ' Discharge yourself of our company Pistol ' ( 2H4 2.4.106 ) .39 In As You Like It both Celia and Rosalind choose relevant disguise names ( ' some- thing that hath a reference ...
... reference to the multiple meanings of his anachronistic name : ' Discharge yourself of our company Pistol ' ( 2H4 2.4.106 ) .39 In As You Like It both Celia and Rosalind choose relevant disguise names ( ' some- thing that hath a reference ...
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... reference is effective independ- ently of any familiarity with the writers quoted , Webster's interest in classical tragedy elsewhere in the epistle , and his explanatory ' a tragic writer ' ( denoting Alcestides , the reference to ...
... reference is effective independ- ently of any familiarity with the writers quoted , Webster's interest in classical tragedy elsewhere in the epistle , and his explanatory ' a tragic writer ' ( denoting Alcestides , the reference to ...
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Where There's a Will There's a Way: Or, All I Really Need to Know I Learned ... Laurie E. Maguire Previsualització limitada - 2006 |