Concept of the Name in the Tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” as an Element of the Cultural Code

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10.2991/assehr.k.210313.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Shakespeare, nominalists, realists, name, mind, freedom, love

Abstract

The article applies a new approach to the problem of the name concept in the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”. It is shown that W. Shakespeare’s tragedy is considered in a context of medieval dispute of the realists and the nominalists discussing ratio of a name and essence. The authors proved that Juliette acts as a supporter of Renaissance interpretation of medieval nominalism, testifying to independence of the person from own name. Romeo and Juliet displace the memory of the deceased nameless first ancestor by their death, becoming the fundamental victim in the Foundation of the Renaissance world of love. Shakespeare shows how the process of replacing the cultural code of the middle ages, which asserts the importance of the name. These codes contradict each other.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Elena V. Kulikova
AU  - Svetlana Valentinovna Gerasimova
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - Concept of the Name in the Tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” as an Element of the Cultural Code
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 206
EP  - 211
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.038
ID  - Kulikova2021
ER  -