A Provincial Bibliography on Names in the Works of Shakespeare
Richard Coates · Names · 1987
References Relevant background works on Shakespeare’s language Abbott, E.A. 1894. A Shakespearian grammar. London, etc.: Macmillan. [See paragraphs 22 and 469 on the syntax and prosody of names.] Brook, G.L. 1976. The language of Shakespeare. London: André Deutsch. [Especially on some points of pronunciation.) Calderwood, J.L. 1979. Elizabethan naming. In his Metadrama in Shakespeare’s Henriad. Berkeley: University of California Press. [On the understanding of naming during the Renaissance. Cf. Donawerth 1984. There is some more general background discussion in his Shakespearean metadrama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971.] Cercignani, Fausto. 1981. Shakespeare’s works and Elizabethan pronunciation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Donawerth, Jane. 1984. “What is in that word?” The nature, history and powers of language. Chapter 1 of her Shakespeare and the sixteenth century study of language. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Pages 13–55. [Especially 25–31 on Shakespeare’s understanding of name-etymology in relation to the debate on natural signification.] Kökeritz, Helge. 1953. Shakespeare’s pronunciation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. [Supersedes his study in Moderna sprik 43 (1949), 149–68.] Partridge, Eric H. 1947, 1955. Shakespeare’s bawdy. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; New York: Dutton. [Revised edition 1969.] Sugden, E.H. 1925. A topographical dictionary to the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Reprinted Hildesheim: Georg Olms (1969).] Section B Major commonly-consulted works on Shakespeare’s sources Bullough, Geoffrey. 1957–75. Narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare. 8 vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Chambers, Edmund K. 1930. William Shakespeare: a study of facts and problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Muir, Kenneth. 1957. Shakespeare’s sources I: comedies and tragedies. London: Methuen. [As is well known, volume II never materialized.] Stokes, Francis G. 1960. A dictionary of the characters and proper names in the works of Shakespeare. [Reprinted Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith,from edition of 1924.] Thomson, W.H. 1951. Shakespeare’s characters: a historical dictionary. New York: British Book Centre. Section C Specialized works on Shakespeare’s names and incidental relevant material Allen, Percy. 1936. Letter [about Griffin 1936]. Times Literary Supplement 18/7/1936, 600. Andrews, Michael Cameron. 1986. Fluellen; or Speedwell. Notes and Queries 33 (231), 354–56. [An allusion to be plucked by herbalists in the audience.] [anonymous]. 1876. Shakespeare’s [sic] Greek names. Cornhill Magazine 33, 206–16. Arnold, Matthew. 1864. The literary influence of academies. Cornhill Magazine 10, 154–72, esp. 167–68. [In rebuttal of Ruskin’s etymologies, or at least of their relevance to the plays.] Ashley, Leonard R.N., and Michael J.F. Hanifin. 1979. Onomasticon of Roman anthropo- nyms (part II): explication and application. Shakespeare’s handling of Roman names. Names 27, 1–45 [esp. 9–20]. [Cf. Hanifin-Winthrop 1980.] Babcock, C. Merton. 1951. An analogue for the name Othello. Notes and Queries 196, 575. [Cf. Lee 1961, Sipahigil 1971, Fleissner 1978, Coates forthcoming. On a ?source adduced by Steevens.] Baker, Arthur E. .1938. A Shakespeare commentary, vol. 1. Taunton: the author. [Not seen; said by Gordon Ross Smith in his bibliography to be relevant to the topic.] Baker, C.P. 1975. Salerio, Solanio, Salarino and salario. Names 23, 56–57. [Rather laboured and perhaps overinterpreted but essentially convincing.] Barton, Anne. Said in 1986 to be forthcoming. Comedy and the naming of parts. Toronto: Toronto University Press and Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Revision of the 1983 Alexander Lectures.) Bate, A. Jonathan. 1982. An herb by any other name: Romeo and Juliet, IV.iv.5–6. Shakespeare Quarterly 33, 336. [Disputes Ferguson and Yachnin 1981.] Brennan, J.H. 1943. Nerissa’s name. American Notes and Queries 3, 88. Browne, C.E. 1876. Notes on Shakespeare’s names I, II and HI. Athenaeum 2543, 112–13; 2544, 147–48; 2553, 432–33. [These essays stand up extraordinarily well even after a century, anticipating much later works on some points.] Byrne, M. St.C. 1934. The social background. In A companion to Shakespeare studies, edited by H. Granville-Barker and G.B. Harrison, 187–210. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Comment (192) on incongruities of character-naming in relation to the location of the plays.] C., T.C. 1946. London’s place-names and men of letters (2): Shakespeare and Addison. Notes and Queries 190, 12–13. [A trifle on Shakespeare in street-names. Better in John Field’s (1984) Place-names of Greater London. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.] Candido, J. 1984. The name of the king: Hal’s ‘titles’ in the Henriad. Texas Studies in Language and Literature 26, 61–73. [Discusses Hal’s apparent preoccupation with the subject.] Champion, Larry S. 1968. Shakespeare’s ‘Nell.’ Names 16, 357–61. [Reprinted in Harder 1986, 203–7.] Coates, Richard. 1976. A personal name etymology and a Shakespearean dramatic motiv. Names 24, 1–8. [Cym: Imogen (and Posthumus); cf. Nitze 1956.] Coates, Richard. 1986. Dogberry and Verges as a pair in Much Ado about Nothing. Names 34, 236–37. [Anticipated by Browne 1876 III and notes to Arden MAAN. ‘Discovery’ seems to have been made three times independently.] Coates, Richard. 1987. A provincial bibliography on names in the works of Shakespeare. Names 35, 206–22. Coates, Richard. Forthcoming. Othello’s name yet again. Names. [Cf. Lee 1961, Sipahigil 1971, Fleissner 1978.] Corballis, R.P. 1984. The name Antonio in English Renaissance drama. Cahiers élisabéthàins 25, 61–72. [Includes the instances in MAAN, TGV, MOV, TN and Temp. Cf. Scragg 1985.] Davis, Norman. 1977. Falstaff’s name. Shakespeare Quarterly 28, 513–15. [Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 below.] Dawson, R. MacG. 1987. But why Enobarbus? Notes and Queries 34 (232), 216–17. [Allusion to theatrical tradition of red beards for the treacherous.] Doran, M. 1976. What should be in that ‘Caesar’? Proper names in Julius Caesar. In her Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 120–53. [On the use of names rather than on their genesis.] Eccles, Mark. 1953. Review of Texas Studies in English 30 (1951). [Including Law 1951. He notes anticipations by Brown 1876 and Erler 1913.] Erler, E. 1913. Die Namengebung bei Shakespeare. Heidelberg doctoral dissertation. Enlarged version appeared as Anglistische Arbeiten 2. Reviewed by Förster, q.v. [Kökeritz 1950 calls it “fairly adequate.”] Feihler, R. 1955. How Oldcastle became Falstaff. Modern Language Quarterly 16, 16–28. [On the history of scholarship about this name-change. Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 below.] Ferguson, Liane, and Paul Yachnin. 1981. The name of Juliet’s nurse. Shakespeare Quarterly 32, 95–96. [They claim that an emendation is needed; Angelica is a ghost-name; contrast Bate 1982.] Fleissner, R.F. 1966. A key to the name Shylock. American Notes and Queries 4, 52–54. [Possible references to historical personages; most implausible.] Fleissner, R.F. 1974. Lear’s learned name. Names 22, 183–84. [Cordelia, Lear, Iago, Desdemona; full of puns and anagrams. Does not convince.] Fleissner, R.F. 1978. The Moor’s nomenclature. Notes and Queries 223, 143. [Cf. Lees 1961, Sipahigil 1971, Coates 1986a.] Fleissner, R.F. 1982. ‘Arden and ... Merry’/Mary Arden: calling on Shakespeare’s mother in As You Like It. Marianum 44, 171–77. [A supposed allusion to Mary Arden in 1.i.107–8.] Ford, J.E. 1982. Barnardine’s nominal nature in Measure for Measure. Papers in Language and Literature 18, 77–81. [Etymology appropriate to character.] Forster, M. 1914. Review of Erler 1913. Shakespeare-Jahrbücher 50, 194–98. Gasper, Julia, and Carolyn Williams. 1986. The meaning of the name ‘Hermione.’ Notes and Queries 33 (231), 367. [Play on herma ‘statue of saint.’ Pretty far-fetched.] Gollancz, Israel. 1916. Bits of timber: some observations on Shakespearean names - ‘Shy- lock.’ ‘Polonius’; ‘Malvolio.’ In his edited collection A book of homage to Shakespeare, 170–78. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [On certain possible sources in Shakespeare’s reading or in common ideas derived from contemporary books. Shylock not convincing; other two are.] Gordon, D.J. 1964. Name and fame: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. In Papers mainly Shakespearian, edited by G.I. Duthie, 40–58. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd [esp. 51–54.] Granville-Barker, Harley. 1930. i Corry-ols, Corry-o-les or Cori-o-les; Corry-o-lanus or Cori-o-lanus? In Preface to Coriolanus. Reprinted in Prefaces to Shakespeare, e.g. volume II of Batsford edition of 1958, 297–99. [On the pronunciation of the name Coriolanus itself and problems of versification.] Gray, A.K. 1924. The secret of Love’s Labour’s Lost. PMLA 39, 581–611. [Includes speculation on the choice of names for certain characters, 591ff.] Green, W. 1972. Humours characters and attributive names in Shakespeare’s plays. Names 20, 157–65. [Especially MWW, 2HyIV, AYLI, TN; relates the names to-the current fashion for characterization by the four humours. Reprinted in Harder 1986, 208–16.] Green, W. 1980. Shakespeare’s use of names for his humours characters. In Pubs, placenames and patronymics: selected papers of the Names Institute, edited by E. W. McMullen, 264. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Names Institute. [Summary of conference papers of 1971; see also Green 1972.] Griffin, W.J. 1936. Names in The Winter’s Tale. Times Literary Supplement 6/6/1936, 480. [See also Allen 1936.] Hanifin-Winthrop, M. 1980. The names in Shakespeare’s Roman plays and Jonson’s tragedies and ‘The Poetaster.’ In McMullen (see Green 1980), 276. [Summary of conference paper of 1978. Shakespeare’s understanding or otherwise of the Roman system of naming. Cf. Ashley and Hanifin 1979.] Harbage, A. 1963. William Shakespeare - a reader’s guide. New York: Octagon. [Esp. 76–77 on the use of names and titles in the histories.] Harder, K.B., comp. 1986. Names and their varieties: a collection of essays in onomastics. New York: Lanham/London: UP America. [Contains reprints of Champion 1968, Green 1975, Kellogg 1955b.] Herbert, T.W. 1954. The naming of Falstaff. Emory University Quarterly 10, 1–11. [Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 below.] Hill, Christopher. 1979. Review of Levith 1978. New Statesman 9/2/1979, 188. Hotson, Leslie. 1952. Shakespeare’s motley. London: Hart-Davis. [88–89 [Lavatch]; 115–16 [Touchstone]; 120–22 [Topas]; 122 [Jaques].] Hotson, Leslie. 1954. The first night ofi‘Twelfth Night.’ London/New York: Macmillan. [Especially 13ff. [Orsino - from a historical person]; 108 [Malvolio; pun on name of Mall Fitton - pretty doubtful if ingenious]; 115 [Aguecheek, from the Spanish - amazingly farfetched].] Jackson, MacDonald P. 1975. North’s Plutarch and the name ‘Escanes’ in Shakespeare’s ‘Pericles.’ Notes and Queries 220, 173–4. [From Æschines.] Jones, W.M. 1960. Shakespeare as William in As You Like It. Shakespeare Quarterly 11, 128–31. [The title explains itself.] Jorgensen, Paul A. 1950. My name is Pistol call’d. Shakespeare Quarterly 1, 73–75. Reprinted in the author’s Redeeming Shakespeare’s words (1962), Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 70–74. [Redeems the obvious interpretation of Pistol’s name.] Kane, Robert J. 1953. Richard du Champ in Cymbeline. Shakespeare Quarterly 4, 206. [Claims an allusion to Richard Field.] Kay, D.C. 1984. A Spenserian source for Shakespeare’s Claribel? Notes and Queries 229, 217. [From Faerie Queen into Temp.] Kellogg, Allen B. 1955a. Place-names and epithets in Homer and Shakespeare. Names 3, 169–71. Kellogg, Allen B. 1955b. Nicknames and nonce-names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Names 3, 1–4. [Reprinted in Harder 1986, 41–44.] Keyishian, H. 1984. An interview with P. Barry. Bulletin of the New York Shakespeare Society 2, 7–9. [Barry discusses the name Othello in passing.] Knight, G. Wilson. 1958. What’s in a name? In the author’s The sovereign flower, London: Methuen, 161–201. [A good deal of empty woolgathering in a tradition which provides few points of entry for the outsider. Sample: “Of Yorick all I can say is that it fits.”] Kökeritz, Helge 1950. Punning names in Shakespeare. Modern Language Notes 65, 240–43. [Coins, Pistol, Quickly, Tearsheet. Cf. Kolin 1980.] Kökeritz, Helge 1966. Shakespeare’s names: a pronouncing dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press. See also 1953 text. [Often considered authoritative, but see now Cercignani 1981 in Section A above.] Kolin, Philip C. 1980. The names of whores and their bawds and panders in English Renaissance drama. Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 6, 41–50. [Including those in Shakespeare. Cf. Kökeritz 1950.] Kolin, Philip C. 1982. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, 1.ii.34–101. The Explicator 40, 12–13. [On the guest-list read by Romeo; references to lovers and plotters in other literary works.] Koszul, A. 1937. Ariel. English Studies 19, 200–4. [Historical accounts of the name.] Law, Robert Adger. 1943. The Roman background of Titus Andronicus. Studies in Philology A0, 145–53. [Plutarch’s Life of Scipio for TA.] Law, Robert Adger. 1951. On certain proper names in Shakespeare. Texas Studies in English 30, 61–65. [Especially in relation to MFM; Plutarch for TO A, MND, WT; Orlando Furioso for AYLI; anagrams in TN.] Lees, F.N. 1961. Othello’s name. Notes and Queries 206, 139–41. [Cf. Sipahigil 1971, Fleissner 1978, Coates 1986a.] Lees, F.N. 1978. Plutarch and The Winter’s Tale. Notes and Queries. 223, 161–62. Levin, Harry. 1965. Shakespeare’s nomenclature. In Essays on Shakespeare, edited by G.W. Chapman, 49–90. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Reprinted in the author’s Shakespeare and the revolution of the times, New York: Oxford University Press, 51–77.] [Rather desultory wander through the field at a rather general level. Some remarks on the use of names; some muted criticism of earlier work (sometimes mis-cited).] Levith, Murray J. 1976. Juliet’s question and Shakespeare’s names. In the author’s edited collection Renaissance and modern: essays in honor of Edwin M. Moseley. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College. [Reprinted in its essence as Chapter 1 of Levith 1978.] Levith, Murray J. 1978. What’s in Shakespeare’s names. Hamden, CT: Archon Books and London/Sydney: George Allen and Unwin. Reviewed by Hill, Litt, Stewart, Tetzeli von Rosadur, and Vest, q.v. For other, later, reviews, see Shakespeare Quarterly Bibliographies in vols. 34, 5 (280) and 35, 6 (287). [The only relatively complete work on the topic of the names as such, but regrettably often rather superficial, uncritical, given to flights of fancy in defiance of philological plausibility and relying on weak verbal associations.] i Lewalski, Barbara. 1970. Hero’s name and namesake in Much Ado about Nothing. English Language Notes 7, 175–79. [Convincing on an unsuspected source in Chapman’s continuation of Marlowe’s Hero and Leander.] Litt, Dorothy E. 1979. Review of Levith 1978. American Reference Books Annual 10, 616–17. Lower, Mark Antony. 1850. The name of Shylock. Notes and Queries 1 (12), 184. Macey, S.L. 1978. The naming of the protagonists in Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Notes and Queries 223, 143–45. [Iago is taken from Holinshed; contrast Murphy 1964.] Maclean, Hugh. 1977. Bassanio’s name and nature. Names 25, 55–62. [Cf. Nathan 1986a.] Malone, Kemp. 1922. The literary history of Hamlet: the early tradition. New York: Haskell House, reprint 1964, 52–58. [Suggested etymology for Amlóoi (= Hamlet) in Ambalessaga ‘mad Ole.’ For why, cf. also 184–88.] Malone, Kemp. 1957. Meaningful fictive names in English literature. Names 5, 1–13. [Various names in TN: Belch, Aguecheek, Feste, Malvolio. Contrast Hotson 1954.] Marcotte, P.J. 1982. Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, Lines 2017–2018. The Explicator 41, 6–9. [On Violenia/Diana.] Markey, Thomas L. 1982. Lear and his daughters. Beiträge zur Namenforschung (New Series) 17, 56–62. [On the Indo-European background of the names; actually on the names as in Geoffrey of Monmouth, but obviously relevant.] Maxwell, J.C. 1967. The name of Brutus. Notes and Queries 212, 136. [Shakespeare knew the meaning of Latin brutus.] McDavid, Raven I., Jr. 1981–2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are alive and prospering. Modern Philology 79, 400–2. [On the historicity of the two families whose names are used.] McDonell, H.M. 1970. A study of the names of characters in Shakespearean comedy. University dissertation. in not J. 1984. on the As You Like and the of of naming are with their relevance to Shakespeare’s 1946. The of Quarterly 25, [Cf. Browne 1876 Falstaff and his Studies in Philology 17, of the Ado about Notes and Queries [On its relation to a Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare and Notes and Queries as a for 1964. A on name. In Literature and edited by B. University of Press. 1978.] S. The of Review of English Studies 7, [On the English names; are taken from Norman. notes on The of Shakespeare Bulletin 23, Modern English and words Shylock an not a Norman. 1957. and Notes and Queries Norman. Bassanio’s name. 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The of in given to anagrams W. and are the names of characters in Shakespeare 16, to Renaissance and W. sources for Shakespeare’s Shakespeare Quarterly use of the name in relation to other literary 1979. A source for ‘The of and by Shakespeare 32, [An in the ... and in which it should have on etymologies, if that is are supposed to L. 1966. The of Falstaff. Shakespeare Studies 2, [On the Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 Cf. also on L. 1968. and the Oldcastle Modern Philology 65, Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 L. a in English Literary of the on in the W. The Shakespearian English Language Notes 22, the as from Cf. 1936. Die Namengebung bei on bei Othello’s again. Notes and Queries [Cf. Lees 1961, Fleissner 1978, Coates 1986a.] K. Some on the of Shakespeare for use by and in the Shakespeare [Includes notes on the problems of names.] Gordon 1963. A Shakespeare University University Press. proper names. as are are in this 1954. Shakespearean 1. The name of 2. John of Modern Language Review as a from North’s Plutarch of speculation on and of the 1955. Names 3, in MWW, from Stewart, 1979. Review of Levith 1978. 1980. name. In McMullen (see Green 1980), [Summary of conference paper of on Shakespeare not for the first by a Cf. also 1984. and Journal of [These names are not a See in Section below.] 1978. name and his Shakespeare Quarterly a not as supposed a from contrast more convincing.] [From the for from the of A. 1 A. The names in As You Like It. Shakespeare Bulletin [Contains about Shakespeare’s of contrast Law G. 1982. Shakespeare Quarterly 33, in Richard to G. The of Shakespeare of the for John Oldcastle as the and the of Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 below.] Tetzeli von Rosadur, 1982. Review of Levith 1978. Shakespeare-Jahrbücher 1978. On the name American Notes and Queries 16, from in Jonson’s 1980. New sources for As You Like It. 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Shakespeare Quarterly 27, [Cf. the Falstaff sequence in the reference-index, Appendix 1 below.] Jr. 1979. and name: a Shakespeare Quarterly 30, 1978.] The and of Shakespeare’s The Series) 26, [Includes 1980. an of a name. of the 6 [Etymology appropriate to character.] Section The name Shakespeare: selected and debate T.W. 1975. Shakespeare. In von edited by R. and E. Shakespeare A Shakespeare London: early not otherwise in the bibliography can be in 1, vol. and 2, vol. not Chambers, Edmund K. 1930. William Shakespeare: A study of facts and problems Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Especially Appendix ‘The name Jane. Shakespeare’s and In Shakespeare in the edited by London: for the [Especially on the K. Die Shakespeare. 5, [See also Appendix 1 to his William Shakespeare. an Shakespeare as a personal name. Notes and Queries the debate and see references below.] C. The name 22, of the C. The name Shakespeare. Notes and Queries [As the C. 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