... swift-moving production that did not shrink from the play's misogyny'. as for the ending, katherina's speech became 8 Vince Leigh as petruchio and dan wheeler as kate ... 5 a similar approach is taken by bruce r.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: • An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar ...
An annotated version of William Shakespeare's classic play with introduction and essay by Harold Bloom.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.
6 November 1916 Frediswyde Hunter - Watts Allan Wilkie Touring , mainly Australia 15 June 1918 John Drinkwater Margaret Chatwin William J. Rea Catherine Willard Charles Warburton Birmingham Repertory Theatre Old Vic Old Vic 12 January ...
This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception. It views the two 16th-century 'Shrew' plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent.
Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality.
It was Martin Harvey , acting under the advice and influence of William Poel , who in a 1913 production at the Prince of Wales Theatre , decided to supplement Shakespeare's text by interpolating the Christopher Sly scenes from A Shrew ...
Includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, production history of the play, an overview of Shakespeare's career and more.
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) saw the play in 1667 and called it 'extremely silly' – but he was probably watching John Lacy's brutal version of the text, Sauny the Scot. Samuel Johnson (1709–84) enjoyed what he saw, and found 'the part ...
We'll overreach the greybeard Gremio , The narrow prying father Minola , The quaint musician , amorous Litio , All for my master's sake , Lucentio . Enter Gremio Signor Gremio , came you from the church ? GREMIO As willingly as e'er I ...
... “The Shrew as Editor / Editing Shrews”; Margaret Maurer and Barry Gaines, “Putting the Silent Woman Back into the Shakespearean Shrew”; Helmer J. Helmers, “Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew”; Charles Conaway, ...
KATE I chafe you, if I tarry. Let me go. PETRUCHIO No, not a whit. I find you passing gentle. 'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen, And now I find report a very liar, For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, ...
Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, vol. 1, pp. 57–160. New York: Columbia University Press, 1957. Bullough tracks the many possible sources for The Shrew and prints two sources and an analogue, ...
Farewell : yet for the love I beare my sweet Bianca, if I can by any meanes light on a fit man to teach her that wherein ... L211-b L 211 - b R 2 1 1 - b : 1.1.103-133 Fl - 2's three line irregular setting (10/8/5 syllables) provides a ...
Juliet Dusinberre has, however, argued that a number of influential writers were beginning to take a more liberal view of marriage, giving greater dignity to the woman and making her the man's friend and partner, if not his absolute ...
As Kahn notes, however, the problem with readings that locate empowerment in Katherina's performance – in a female voice that changes its tune but not its stridency – is that '[t]hough Kate is clever enough to use his verbal strategies ...
How might other characters on stage respond to her account of a woman's duty to her husband? This Handbook provides students and theatre-goers with a performance-oriented guide to the drama.
From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a fresh new edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes THIS EDITION INCLUDES: • An illuminating introduction to The Taming of the Shrew by award-winning scholar ...
LORD. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds; Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd, And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.