The Taming of the Shrew Critical Essays [Paperback]

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.A Critical History of The Taming ofthe Shrew  The Play and Its Critics Dana Aspinall  The Taming of the Shrew:Critical Appraisals from His Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew(1928) Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch  The taming of the Shrew: A Social Comedy George R. Hibbard  The TamingUntamed, or, the Return of the Shrew Robert B. Heilman  Comic Structure and the Humanizing of Kate in TheTaming of the Shrew John C. bean  Horses and Hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the ShrewJeanne Addison Roberts  The Good Marriage of Katherine and Petruchio David Daniell  Shrewd and Kindly Farce Peter Saccio  Refashioning the ShrewValerie Wayne  The Ending of the Shrew MargieBunrs  Renaissance Family Politics and Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew Karen Newman  Love Wrought These Miracles : Marriage and Genre in TheTaming of the Shrew Margaret Lael Miksell  Scolding Brides and Briding Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member Lynda E. Boose  The Shakespeare Editor as Shrew-Tamer Leah Marcus  &l#L