The Shakespearean Name: Essays on Romeo and Juliet, the Tempesi and Other Plays - Softcover

A collection of ten essays on Shakespearean drama, the majority of which focus on the problem of language and more particularly on issues pertaining to names and their meanings.

David Lucking is Professor of English at the University of Lecce, where he teaches both English and Canadian literature. His full-length publications include The Serpent's Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature, Ancestors and Gods: Margaret Laurence and the Dialectics of Identity, Plays upon the Word: Shakespeare's Drama of Language, Beyond Innocence: Literary Transformations of the Fall, and Conrad's Mysteries: Variations on an Archetypal Theme.