The Taming of the Shrew - New Cambridge Shakespeare

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This is the third New Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays. Ann Thompson considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment that the play often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism. For this version the editor pays lively attention to the problematic nature of debates about the play and its reception in the twenty-first century. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and critical studies.

List of contents

Introduction; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendices; Reading list.

About the author

William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[2] He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Summary

This third edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, includes a new introductory section which pays lively attention to twenty-first-century stage performances, textual and critical studies. Ann Thompson describes the 'deeply problematic' nature of debates about the play and its reception.

Product details

• Authors: William Shakespeare, Shakespeare William, Ann Thompson
• Assisted by: Ann Thompson (Editor), Ann (King's College London) Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781316628201
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62820-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 10 mm
• Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare: The; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS); The New Cambridge Shakespeare; The New Cambridge Shakespeare (NCS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Literaturwissenschaft, Schauspiel, Englisch, Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker, Klassische Dramen und Dramen (vor 1900), England / Sprache, Englische Belletristik / Dramatik, Drehbuch, Drama - Dramatiker, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Dramatik