The Taming of the Shrew
Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Publishing : 2012Description: 20cm : 144 PagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 42711ISBN: 9781853260797Subject(s): Shakespeare | PlaysDDC classification: 822 SHAItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously 'tames' a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage and screen, notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The Oxford Shakespeare (p. i)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Editorial Principles (p. 77)
- Abbreviations and References (p. 79)
- The Characters of the Play (p. 87)
- The Taming of the Shrew (p. 89)
- Appendix A (p. 233)
- Appendix B (p. 236)
- Index to the Commentary (p. 237)
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Library Journal Review
A comedy and drama about strained marital relations get Yale's red-carpet treatment. Each volume contains an essay by Harold Bloom and other extras. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.CHOICE Review
This valuable book "offers students historical avenues of approach to Shakespeare as well as Shakespearean avenues of approach to social history." Besides providing the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew (edited and copiously footnoted by David Bevington), Dolan (Miami Univ.) has collected a wide range of primary historical documents. For example, she offers excerpts from T.E.'s "The Law's Resolution of Women's Rights" (1632), Gouge's "Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises" (1634), and Whately's "Bride-Bush" (1623). This intertextual constellation interrogates the construction of gender in Renaissance culture and will foster heated debates about "marriage, women, and domesticity." Dolan makes these texts accessible by modernizing and standardizing spelling, punctuation, and paragraphs. Finally, this comprehensive literary storehouse includes seven pages of bibliographic information (primary and secondary sources), 16 illustrations, and insightful commentary introducing the book and accompanying the historical texts. This reviewer eagerly anticipates similar editions from this publisher. J. S. Carducci Winona State UniversityThere are no comments on this title.