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Names Shakespeare Didn’t Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited
Names ( IF 0.800 ) Pub Date : 2018-10-29 , DOI: 10.1080/00277738.2018.1490518
Sara L. Uckelman

Just as Shakespeare’s plays left their indelible stamp on the English language, so too did his names influence the naming pool in England at the beginning of the 17th century and beyond. Today, certain popular modern names are often described as inventions of Shakespeare. In this article, we revisit three names which are often listed as coinages of Shakespeare’s and show that this received wisdom, though oft-repeated, is in fact incorrect. The three names are Imogen, the heroine of Cymbeline; and Olivia and Viola, the heroines of Twelfth Night. All three of these names pre-date Shakespeare’s use. Further, we show in two of the three cases that it is plausible that Shakespeare was familiar with this earlier usage. We conclude by briefly discussing why these names are commonly mistakenly attributed to Shakespeare’s imagination; and we examine the weaker, but not mistaken, claims which may underlie these attributions.



中文翻译:

莎士比亚没发明的名字:Imogen,OliviaViola再访

正如莎士比亚的戏剧留下了他们的不可磨灭的印记英语,所以也做了他的名字影响英格兰命名池在17年初世纪及以后。如今,某些流行的现代名字经常被描述为莎士比亚的发明。在本文中,我们回顾了三个通常被称为莎士比亚的硬币的名字,并表明尽管经常被重复使用,但这实际上是不正确的。这三个名字是伊莫,女主角辛白林; 和奥利维亚中提琴,的女主人公第十二夜。这三个名字都早于莎士比亚的使用。此外,我们在三种情况中的两种情况下表明,莎士比亚熟悉这种较早的用法似乎是合理的。最后,我们简要讨论为什么这些名字通常被误认为莎士比亚的想象力。并且我们研究了可能是这些归因的较弱但没有错误的主张。

更新日期:2018-10-29
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