Aug 9, 2018
New Reflections on the Spelling Issue: "What's in a Name?"
New Reflections on the Spelling Issue: “What’s in a Name?”
Professor Bryan H. Wildenthal’s latest essay explores the same issue about which Juliet famously mused: “What’s in a name?” Specifically, what’s in the spelling of a name?
Juliet muses on Romeo’s name. (Detail from John Massey Wright watercolor, c. 1800, Folger Shakespeare Library.)
Wildenthal argues that the differences in spelling between “Shakespeare,” “Shakspere,” and their variants do not…
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