Talk:Subtitle (titling)
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I like the Shakespeare addition, but what does "spoofed the vogue" mean?
- (Hello there, I just put in a sentence with a link to List of books with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded".) It means that subtitles for plays were fashionable in Elisabethan times, and Shakespeare parodied this fashion by giving Twelfth Night a meaningless subtitle. He makes it sound like he wants to put in a subtitle for fashionableness but can't think of one: "It's called Twelfth Night, and then the subtitle is... uh... OK, the subtitle is whatever you want it to be (=what you will)". I'll expand it a bit, let me know if you think it gets any clearer. Well, I will if the page ever reloads, maybe I'll just give up. --Bishonen 18:16, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I like the list of examples, but some of them (especially the more recent ones) seem to be series: title rather than title: subtitle. For example, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," refers to one specific movie in the Pirates trilogy. Too pedantic for Wikipedia? MlleDiderot 20:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
