The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
ISBN-10
140394539X
ISBN-13
9781403945396
Series
The Taming of the Shrew
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2006-05-27
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Margaret Jane Kidnie

Description

How might Katherine's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? How might it have been staged in the sixteenth? Must this speech be played for irony, or should we understand her words as sincere? This Handbook foregrounds performance and history as interpretative issues, introducing students to a process of creative imaginative thought. It offers skills and materials with which to explore the variety of ways in which Shakespeare's "troubling comedy" or "light tragedy" might take on meaning today.

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