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- Title
'My Name is Norval?': The Revision of Character Names in John Home's Douglas.
- Authors
McGINLEY, KEVIN J.
- Abstract
John Home's Douglas has often been analysed as providing an ahistorical and depoliticised image of Scottish culture. However, a look at the textual transformations that Douglas underwent as it was composed, staged and printed provides a stronger focus on the material contexts of the play's textual production. Examining changes that Home made to character names and possible motivations for these changes enables one to perceive how the text of Douglas is closely bound up with the material circumstances in which it is produced, in response to concerns over its reception by different interest groups in different social and cultural contexts.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; DOUGLAS: A Tragedy (Play); HOME, John, 1722-1808; SCOTTISH drama; TRAGEDY (Drama); ENLIGHTENMENT; PERSONAL names; EIGHTEENTH century; DRAMA criticism
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/j.1754-0208.2011.00382.x