ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
A Critical History of The Taming of the Shrew
part II|266 pages
The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Appraisals
chapter |26 pages
Framing the Taming
Metatheatrical Awareness of Female Impersonation in The Taming of the Shrew
chapter |22 pages
“What's That to You?” or, Facing Facts
Anti-Paternalist Chords and Social Discords in The Taming of the Shrew
part III|84 pages
The Taming of the Shrew on Stage, in Film, and on Television
chapter |2 pages
The Taming of the Shrew
Presented by Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival at the Stephen Foster Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, June 30–July 16, 1994
chapter |2 pages
Review of Gale Edwards's Taming of the Shrew,
Royal Shakespeare Company, Evening Standard, April 24, 1995
