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"What's in a Name": Speech Prefixes in Early English Printed Drama, 1570-1625
This dissertation explores speech prefixes--the often-truncated names of the characters printed before each speech--in 206 first edition quartos of early English drama printed between 1570 and 1625. At face value, these speech prefixes are neutral or even boring as they simply tell the reader who …