^And, as also pointed out on the page, the trope is not named after the work, but rather the trope and the work are both named after the Shelley quote.
I see the Awesomeness.
I think Theatre is the namespace for plays.
Fight smart, not fair.
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^^ And in that sort of situation, we ask whether the phrase was used this way before the play was written.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Necro bump, but agree that the usage that significantly predates Coward's play should supersede that work. Theatre namespace it. Like our pages for Arcadia (the pastoral trope) and Arcadia (Tom Stoppard's play).
Dramaturg, troper, theatre reviewer. (Please hire me.)
Got a call to lock because of inactivity. Clocking.
(Maddie's question is a good one. I suspect the phrase predates the play. The original poem seems more in line with the trope, but the phrase doesn't need the reference to work. My instinct is that we'd would find little or no misuse where the play is meant rather than the trope.)
edited 3rd Dec '11 6:46:08 PM by Camacan
The phrase is pre-existing and well known.
I'm pretty sure it existed before the work.
Works pages are supposed to be put in their namespaces these days anyway. Hollering for a lock.
The trope Blithe Spirit, as is pointed out on its page, shares its name with a work (a Noel Coward play.)