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)

Now the article seems to contradict itself, saying in one place that "What You Will" is part of the title proper of "Twelfth Night, or What You Will", and in another that it is a subtitle to "Twelfth Night." Colin McLarty (talk) 14:45, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

How would we call a subsubtile?
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace: If we consider "Star Wars" to be a title and "Episode I" to be a subtitle, then how would we call "The Phantom Menace"? "Subsubtitle" looks weird to me (though it is quite logical).