What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet


Lines from the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Juliet, prevented from marrying Romeo by the feud between their families, complains that Romeo’s name is all that keeps him from her. (Compare “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”)	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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