The Taming of The Shrew

Third Series

By:

William Shakespeare

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarized debate over the meaning and worth of the play. This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception. It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent and so includes the full text of The Taming of A Shrew in an appendix. While the Introduction and Commentary focus on the critical and theatrical debate surrounding the play, the original and comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew, more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case. Barbara Hodgdon is a distinguised feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas and and questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy.

Author Biography:

Barbara Hodgdon is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations, the Arden 3 Online Performance Project, The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History, and two books exploring Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts One and Two as texts and in performance.

Release date Australia

April 26th, 2010

Author

William Shakespeare

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Barbara Hodgdon

Illustrations

20 illlustrations in the introduction

Pages

472

Series

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Dimensions

129x198x25

ISBN-13

9781903436936

Product ID

1842268

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