The Taming of the Shrew

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
• Release : 04 February 1993

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 12 September 2013

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• Author : Harold Bloom,Pamela Loos
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 04 February 2023

Presents a collection of essays discussing aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy portraying the ageless battle between the sexes.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 01 January 2005

An annotated version of William Shakespeare's classic play with introduction and essay by Harold Bloom.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 21 January 1999

A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and to make her his wife

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 21 February 2013

The Taming of the Shrew is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Modern Library
• Release : 14 September 2010

A robust and bawdy battle of the sexes, this ever popular comedy captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio. Their boisterous conflict is set off against a more conventional romantic plot involving the wooing of Katharina’s lovely and compliant sister, Bianca. Rich with the psychological themes of identity and transformation, the play is quintessentially lighthearted, filled with visual gags, witty repartee, and unmatched theatrical brilliance

• Author : Dana Aspinall
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 28 October 2013

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 surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

• Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 14 December 2017

Few of Shakespeare's comedies have proved more popular and enduring than The Taming of the Shrew - and yet it has come to seem one of Shakespeare's more controversial plays. An analysis of the drama that is attentive to its theatrical challenges and stage history allows a better understanding of its power to provoke such diverse responses. How might Katerina's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? Must it be played for irony, or are her words sincere? How

• Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 25 March 2021

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students,

• Author : Summar West,Hailey Warner
• Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
• Release : 15 December 2016

Since its publication in the late sixteenth century, The Taming of the Shrew has been staged, filmed, and reinterpreted countless times. This beloved Shakespearean comedy is still celebrated today, though unlike the audiences in Shakespeare’s time, contemporary audiences share their responses to the play on social media! Reading Shakespeare Today: The Taming of the Shrew provides historical context for the play, reviews the themes and motifs that make it timeless, and investigates how the comedy fits into our modern

• Author : Eric Rasmussen,Jonathan Bate
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 12 May 2020

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Taming of the Shrew in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors and an actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd and Michelle Gomez – providing an illuminating insight into the

• Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 30 July 2015

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the Shrew. This book is ideal for students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1882

• Author : William Shakespeare
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 04 February 1881