Word: maleprop
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Tracing the use of suggestive names from the morality plays to Mrs. Maleprop, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Christopher Newman, Levin pointed out that Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly ("quick lie") is part of a living tradition. He admitted, however, that "with he increase of realism and the decline of allegory, there is a tendency to leave the meaning a bit latent...