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The taming of the shrew

Part of the The Arden Shakespeare Third Series 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 distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas and questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy.

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The Arden Shakespeare
1903436923 / 9781903436929
Hardback
822.33
26/04/2010
United Kingdom
English
400 p. : ill.
20 cm
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