This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeareâs earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).
It is accompanied by âA Note on the Textâ and detailed explanatory annotations.âSources and Contextsâ provides three possible analogues to Shakespeareâs controversial, high-spirited play from Ovidâs Metamorphoses, George Gascoigneâs âSupposes,â and âA Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morelâs Skin.â
âCriticismâ offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on The Taming of the Shrewâs 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.
âRewritings and Appropriationsâ collects seven adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Dramas & Plays
- Shakespeare
- Dramas & Plays
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Author : Shakespeare, William
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2009-06-08
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0393927075
ISBN-13 : 9780393927078
Item weight : 0.8 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5 in x 8.2 in
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