{"product_id":"shakespeares-names-9780199219971","title":"Shakespeare's Names","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laurie Maguire\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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 \u003cem\u003eNames to Give Your Baby\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/em\u003e 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)? \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Names\u003c\/em\u003e 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: \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eComedy of Errors\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAll's Well that Ends Well\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Cressida\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611834400919,"sku":"9780199219971","price":7313.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199219971.webp?v=1775073193","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shakespeares-names-9780199219971","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}