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The taming of the shrew : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings, and appropriations / William Shakespeare ; edited by Dympna Callaghan.

Title
The taming of the shrew : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings, and appropriations / William Shakespeare ; edited by Dympna Callaghan.
Author
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

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Additional Authors
Callaghan, Dympna.
Description
xvi, 356 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
  • A Selected Bibliography is also included.
  • Criticism offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on The Taming of the Shrews in fifteen essays by Laurie Maguire, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bernard Shaw, Natasha Korda, Frances Dolan, Lynda E. Boose, Harold Bloom, Patricia Parker, Shirley Nelson Garner, Juliet Dusinberre, Marea Mitchell, Karen Newman, E. M. W. Tillyard, and Jan Harold Brunvand.
  • It is accompanied by A Note on the Text and detailed explanatory annotations.
  • Rewritings and Appropriations collects seven adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz.
  • This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeares earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).
Series Statement
A Norton critical edition
Subject
  • Man-woman relationships > Drama
  • Married people > Drama
  • Padua (Italy) > Drama
  • Sex role > Drama
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Genre/Form
Drama
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The text of The Taming of the Shrew -- Sources and Contexts -- Criticism -- Rewritings and Appropriations.
ISBN
9780393927078 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008053413
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library