Open AccessMalvolio's Manipulated Name
Author(s) -
Robert F. Fleissner
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
names
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1756-2279
pISSN - 0027-7738
DOI - 10.1179/nam.1991.39.2.95
Subject(s) - philosophy , code (set theory) , literature , history , art , computer science , programming language , set (abstract data type)
The way Malvolio's name in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night relates to the code he gives us, M.DA.I., suggests some kind of correlation or metathesis. The most provocative solution is a recondite French origin, notably by way of Montaigne (but also in terms of Malvenu in Spenser's Faerie Queene).