The Taming of The Shrew Third Series
ISBN: 9781903436936 | 1903436931
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Pub. Date: 6/8/2010
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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 on-going 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 Commenta... MORE
"Hodgson has piqued my interest again in her spry, supple introduction to the play...Her performance history is particularly impressive: closely aligned to the breadth of critical reading, but suggesting the comedy's challenges and, even, its charms."—Plays International
"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."—Sardines Theatre... MORE
Barbara Hodgdon is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations, the Arden 3 Online Performance Project, The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare’s History, and two books exploring Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts One and Two as texts and in performance.
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