Taming of the Shrew'

Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Klappentext A major new edition of this perennially succesful play which continues to entertain and perplex modern audiences. The play is discussed in its critical and theatrical contexts and Hodgdon,a leading feminist scholar, opens up new readings for modern audiences and students. Vorwort A major new edition of this perennially succesful play which continues to entertain and perplex modern audiences. The play is discussed in its critical and theatrical contexts and Hodgdon,a leading feminist scholar, opens up new readings for modern audiences and students. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare
• Assisted by: Barbara Hodgdon (Editor), David Scott Kastan (Editor), Richard Proudfoot (Editor), Ann Thompson (Editor), H R Woudhuysen (Editor)
• Publisher: Black A&C Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781903436929
• ISBN: 978-1-903436-92-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: The Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare - Third Series; Arden Shakespeare; The Arden Shakespeare Third Series; Arden Shakespeare Third; Arden Shakespeare Third (Hardc; Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies