The Taming of the Shrew
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: January 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781903436929
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Literary Collections; English; Literature: Classics; Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Description: "The taming of the shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarized debate over the meaning and worth of the play. This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception. It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent and so includes the full text of The taming of a shrew in an appendix. While the introduction and commentary focus on the critical and theatrical debate surrounding the play, the original and comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew, more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case." --Publisher description.
Notes: Arden Shakespeare: Third