Shakespeare's NamesOUP Oxford, 2007 M10 11 - 272 páginas 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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... audience has so little time to become acquainted with a character , the name must pull its weight . Let us now turn to drama and consider the ways names ' work ' ( Ch . 1 ) and their subliminal asso- ciations for audiences and readers ...
... audience has so little time to become acquainted with a character , the name must pull its weight . Let us now turn to drama and consider the ways names ' work ' ( Ch . 1 ) and their subliminal asso- ciations for audiences and readers ...
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... audience , most memorably in Michael Bogdanov's RSC production of 1978-9 where he drunkenly argued with an usherette before climbing on stage and destroying the set . ) He dramatizes the reader's / audience's active involvement . And ...
... audience , most memorably in Michael Bogdanov's RSC production of 1978-9 where he drunkenly argued with an usherette before climbing on stage and destroying the set . ) He dramatizes the reader's / audience's active involvement . And ...
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... Audience at a great Loss , and the Play hard to understand ' . The audience is thus ' forc [ ed ] to carry Books with ' em to the Play - house to know who comes in , and who goes out ' ( xiii ) . 39. See Melchiori , ed . 2H4 2.4.89–92 n ...
... Audience at a great Loss , and the Play hard to understand ' . The audience is thus ' forc [ ed ] to carry Books with ' em to the Play - house to know who comes in , and who goes out ' ( xiii ) . 39. See Melchiori , ed . 2H4 2.4.89–92 n ...
Contenido
On Names | 9 |
Montague and Capulet | 50 |
Helen | 74 |
Derechos de autor | |
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Términos y frases comunes
abduction actor Adriana All's Amazon anonymity Antipholus of Ephesus Antipholus of Syracuse associations Baptista behaviour Bertram bilingual called Cambridge Capulet century Chapter characters Comedy of Errors consent critics cultural daughter dialogue Diana drama Dromio of Syracuse early modern edition English Ephesians Ephesus Euripides female fiction French godparents Greek Grumio Helen of Troy Henry husband John Kate Katherine Katherine's King language Latin linguistic London Lord Lucentio Luciana Lucrece marriage master meaning Menaechmi Menelaus Mercutio Midsummer Night's Dream nameless narrative noun onomastic Othello Oxford personal names Petruchio play play's proper name puns rape Rape of Lucrece reference Renaissance Richard Robert role Romeo and Juliet RSC production scene servants sexual Shakespeare Shrew Sly's stage direction Stesichorus story Taming textual theatre theatrical Theoclymenus Theseus things Thomas thou tion tragedy Tranio translation Troilus and Cressida Vincentio wife William wives woman women words
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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 Vista previa limitada - 2006 |