Brooklyn Welcomes Romeo Beckham! The stuffy old
Daily Telegraph heartily approves of
Romeo, the name Victoria and David Beckham have given to
their new baby, a brother to
Brooklyn. So now an extra throne must be added to the happy parents' atrocious, unmissable
website. I would have let this foolishness pass, had I not noticed with alarm that there already exists a
bottomless resource catering to those who
insist on giving their offspring Shakespearean names. If this is a trend, how bad can it get?[
Please, no suicide jokes.]
Or, to put it in Shakespeare's own words, from
Romeo and Juliet no less, is this a case of "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by another name would smell as sweet"[
Act ii, sc.2] or, rather, of "the children of an idle brain begot of nothing but vain fantasy"?[
Act i, sc.4]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 2, 2002 -
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