The phenomenon of agnonymy in the tragedy "Othello" by William Shakespeare
The article is devoted to English agnonyms and their groups in the text of the tragedy “Othello” by William Shakespeare. The analysis of agnonyms makes it possible to identify their essential features and criteria necessary for their subsequent classification and systematization. The study of agnonyms helps to understand better the artistic intent of the work, to eliminate gaps in the active and passive vocabulary necessary for a meaningful reading of any work by W. Shakespeare, to comprehend all the subtleties of storylines and the depth of the author's intent. Any work of art is rich with artistic images. Their creation involves words, phrases, sentences, and superphrase unity - dictemes, cumulemes, and so on. If the meaning of a word, phrase, or larger units is not clear when reading, then the phenomenon of agnonymy appears. Agnonymy can appear not only at the level of words and phrases, but also at the level of more complex formations - artistic images, stylistic techniques, tropes, stylistic means. The impossibility of decoding a particular artistic image, expressive means or stylistic reception in a work leads to a loss of its value to the reader, a complete misunderstanding or oblivion, such as in the Famousov’s words in the comedy “Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboedov, “Sergei Sergeyitch, no! Oh, if you want to stop evil, take all the books and burn them”. In Mikhail Bulgakov’s famous novel “The Master and Margarita”, Woland replied to these words by the phrase, “Manuscripts do not burn”. Here, the agnonymic phrases “to burn the books” and “manuscripts do not burn” are used in a metaphorical, hyperbolic sense - understanding and misunderstanding of the work. Although in the first case, there is a tinge of struggle with freethinking, and in the second, there is a defense against this struggle. Nevertheless, the core of agnonymy here is precisely the lack of understanding of the work, since it is unlikely that the one who understands it would want to fight it, knowing its true artistic and aesthetic value for science, art, culture, and so on.