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The Taming of the Shrew
Contributor(s): Shakespeare, William (Author), Hodgdon, Barbara (Editor), Thompson, Ann (Editor)
ISBN: 1903436931     ISBN-13: 9781903436936
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
OUR PRICE:   $13.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Shakespeare
Dewey: 822.33
Lexile Measure: 1340
Series: Arden Shakespeare Third (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (1.10 lbs) 468 pages
 
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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 polarised 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Thompson, Ann: - ANN THOMPSON is Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre and King's College LondonKastan, David Scott: - David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, USA.Proudfoot, Richard: - Professor Richard Proudfoot served as Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare for 35 years, until his retirement from King's in 1999. In 2001 The Arden Shakespeare published Proudfoot's Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon a critical overview of the scholarly achievements made in the field of Shakespeare studies by the end of the twentieth century.Shakespeare, William: - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.