The Taming of the shrew : critical essays /

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments...

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Other Authors: Aspinall, Dana E., 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:Shakespeare criticism.
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Table of Contents:
  • The play and the critics / Dana E. Aspinall
  • From his introduction to The taming of the shrew (1928) / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • The taming untamed, or, The return of the shrew / Robert B. Heilman
  • Horses and Hermaphrodites : metamorphoses in The taming of the shrew / Jeanne Addison Roberts
  • The good marriage of Katherine and Petruchio / David Daniell
  • The ending of The shrew / Margie Burns
  • "Love wrought these miracles" : marriage and genre in The taming of the shrew / Margaret Lael Mikesell
  • Scolding brides and bridling scolds : taming the woman's unruly member / Lynda E. Boose
  • The taming of the shrew : women, acting, and power / Juliet Dusinberre
  • The performance of things in The taming of the shrew / Lena Cowen Orlin
  • Framing the taming : metatheatrical awareness of female impersonation in The taming of the shrew / Michael Shapiro
  • Cultural control in The taming of the shrew / Laurie E. Maguire
  • "What's that to you?" or, Facing facts : anti-paternalist chords and social discords in The taming of the shrew / Natasha Korda
  • "An unholy alliance" : William Poel, Martin Harvey, and The taming of the shrew / Jan MacDonald
  • The taming of the shrew, presented by Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival at the Stephen Foster Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, June 30-July 16, 1994 / Patty S. Derrick
  • The performance of feminism in The taming of the shrew / Margaret Loftus Ranald
  • Review of Gale Edwards's Taming of the shrew, Royal Shakespeare Company, Evening Standard, April 24, 1995 / Nicholas de Jongh
  • Petruchio's house in postwar suburbia : reinventing the domestic woman (again) / Ann C. Christensen
  • Katherina Bound, or play(k)ating the strictures of everyday life / Barbara Hodgdon.