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.
| ISBN: | 9780415874342 |
| Publication date: | 22nd June 2009 |
| Author: | Dana Aspinall |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Shakespeare Criticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 |