What's in Shakespeare's Names

ISBN-13: 9780367681517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 148 str.

Murray J. Levith

Opis

Originally published in 1978, beginning with what has been written previously, the author illustrates how Shakespeare used names – not only those he invented in the later comedies, but those names bequeathed to him by history, myth, classical literature, or the Bible.

Spis treści

Preface.  Acknowledgements.  1. Juliet’s Question  2. Histories: Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Richard III; King John; Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V; Henry VIII  3. Tragedies: Titus Andronicus; Romeo and Juliet; Julius Caesar; Hamlet; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Timon of Athens  4. The Comedies and Romances: The Comedy of Errors; The Taming of the Shrew; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Love’s Labor’s Lost; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Troilus and Cressida; All’s Well that Ends Well; Measure for Measure; Pericles; Cymbeline; The Winter’s Tale; The Tempest  5. Shakespeare’s Name.  Notes.  Index.

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Murray J. Levith