Three Shrew Plays

Author : Barry Gaines,Margaret Maurer
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603843010

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Three Shrew Plays by Barry Gaines,Margaret Maurer Pdf

Unusual among Shakespeare's plays in that it drew theatrical responses from the outset, The Taming of the Shrew continues to inspire adaptations and interpretations that respond to its fascinating, if provocative, representation of a husband's dominance of his wife. This annotated collection of three early modern English plays allows readers to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's Shrew and two closely related plays of the same genre, the earlier of which, the anonymous The Taming of a Shrew (whether inspired by Shakespeare's play or vice-versa), once enjoyed a level of popularity that likely surpassed that of Shakespeare's play. The editors' Introduction brilliantly illuminates points of comparison between the three, their larger themes included, and convincingly argues that Shakespeare's Shrew is seen all the more vividly when the anonymous A Shrew and Fletcher's table-turning The Tamer Tamed are waiting in the wings.

Author : Barry Gaines,Margaret Maurer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1603848770

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Three Shrew Plays by Barry Gaines,Margaret Maurer Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Book Jungle
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1603037128

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Pdf

Can a man tame an ill-tempered woman? Petruchio thinks he is up to the task in The Taming of the Shrew. William Shakespeare (1564 ż 1616) is the most influential writer in English history. Shakespeare has been called The Barb of Avon and Englandżs national poet. There are 2 narrative poems, 154 sonnets and 38 plays in his collected works. He began work as an actor and writer in London first writing comedies and historic plays. He later wrote tragedies. Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth and Othello are some of his more famous plays. The Taming of the Shrew was an early comedy. The play begins with a drunken man who is deceived into thinking he is a nobleman. He then watches this play in which the noble Petruchio married an outspoken ill-tempered woman. Katherine is eventually tamed to the will be Petruchio. The play has been adapted into opera, stage plays and screen plays. Cole Porterżs play Kiss Me Kate is one instance

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350138209

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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play by Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

Author : Brendan P. Kelso
Publisher : Playing With Plays, LLC
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781453641545

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Shakespeare's Hamlet for Kids by Brendan P. Kelso Pdf

Who will you be? Hamlet? Claudius? Ophelia? Rosencrantz or Guildenstern?! Hamlet like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-20+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Hamlet for Kids is a play versatile enough for sibling fun, classes, drama groups, homeschool groups, or backyard performances. It's appropriate and fun for all ages! Plays range from 15 to 25 minutes. Which character will your kids be?! What you will get: Fun! 3 hilarious modifications for group sizes: -- 6-7+ -- 8-14+ -- 11-20+ Actual lines from Shakespeare's play highlighted for easy identification Creatively funny and witty telling of the remaining script A delightfully funny rendition that is easy for ADULTS to understand too! A kid who loves Shakespeare! This mini-melodramatic masterpiece is sure to spark a love of Shakespeare. Shakespeare is difficult enough in class or watching onstage, let alone trying to teach the stories to children, but as the author's mantra states in the book, "there is no better way to learn than to have fun! "Kids who have read this have also eventually purchased the entire Shakespeare works, and have completed 'hero' reports on Shakespeare at school. Guaranteed to have you coming back for more!

Author : Margaret Dupuis,Grace Tiffany
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603291736

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by Margaret Dupuis,Grace Tiffany Pdf

The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions and teaching resources in part 1, "Materials," while illuminating how the play's subtle and complex arguments regarding not just marriage but a host of other subjects--modes of early modern education, the uses of clever rhetoric, intergenerational and class politics, the power of theater--are being brought to life in college classrooms. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," are written by English and theater instructors who have taught in a variety of academic settings and cover topics including early modern homilies and music, Hollywood versions of The Taming of the Shrew, and student performances.

Author : D. Wootton,G. Holderness
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230277489

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Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700 by D. Wootton,G. Holderness Pdf

Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.

Author : Sonya Shafer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 161634279X

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Shakespeare in Three Steps by Sonya Shafer Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139835237

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Pdf

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This is the third New Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays. Ann Thompson considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment that the play often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism. For this version the editor pays lively attention to the problematic nature of debates about the play and its reception in the twenty-first century. She discusses recent editions and textual, performance and critical studies.

Author : Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514029

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New Directions in Early Modern English Drama by Aidan Norrie,Mark Houlahan Pdf

This collection examines some of the people, places, and plays at the edge of early modern English drama. Recent scholarship has begun to think more critically about the edge, particularly in relation to the canon and canonicity. This book demonstrates that the people and concepts long seen as on the edge of early modern English drama made vital contributions both within the fictive worlds of early modern plays, and without, in the real worlds of playmakers, theaters, and audiences. The book engages with topics such as child actors, alterity, sexuality, foreignness, and locality to acknowledge and extend the rich sense of playmaking and all its ancillary activities that have emerged over the last decade. The essays by a global team of scholars bring to life people and practices that flourished on the edge, manifesting their importance to both early modern audiences, and to current readers and performers.

Author : Naseeb Shaheen
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781611493733

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Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays by Naseeb Shaheen Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's day, notes their similarities and differences, and indicates which version the playwright knew best. The biblical references in each of Shakespeare's plays are then carefully analyzed, as are Shakespeare's references to the Prayer Book and the homilies. The thorny question of what constitutes a valid biblical reference is also discussed.

Author : John Fletcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408143803

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The Tamer Tamed by John Fletcher Pdf

The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and reply to The Taming of the Shrew. The plot switches the gender roles of Shakespeare's play: the women seek to tame the men. Katherine (the "shrew" of the original) has died, and Petruchio takes a second wife, Maria. Maria denounces her former mildness and vows not to sleep with Petruchio until she "turn him and bend him as [she] list, and mold him into a babe again." After many comedic exchanges and plot twists, Petruchio is finally "tamed" in the eyes of Maria, and the play ends with the two reconciled. The play is seen to reflect how society's views of women, femininity, and "domestic propriety" were beginning to change. It is said that Fletcher wrote this play to attract Shakespeare's attention - the two went on to collaborate on at least three plays together. This brand new New Mermaid edition offers unique and fresh insight into the critical interpretation of the play. It builds on current critical foundations (the relationship with Taming of the Shrew, gender relations etc) and suggests different areas of interest (popular associations of the shrew, the question of reputation, and a re-examination of the play's structure). as well as examining stage history and recent productions.

Author : Ramon Jiménez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476672649

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Shakespeare's Apprenticeship by Ramon Jiménez Pdf

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or performed during his lifetime are actually his first versions of later canonical works. Three histories, The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Troublesome Reign of John; a comedy, The Taming of a Shrew; and a romance, King Leir, are products of Shakespeare's juvenile years. Later in his career, he transformed them into the plays that bear nearly identical titles. Each is strikingly similar to its canonical counterpart in terms of structure, plot and cast, though the texts were entirely rewritten. Virtually all scholars, critics and editors of Shakespeare have overlooked or disputed the idea that he had anything to do with them. This addition of five plays to the Shakespeare canon introduces a new facet to the authorship debate, and supplies further evidence that the real Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719066662

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Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses on the structural influence of Italian literature, culture and society at large on Shakespeare's dramatic canon. Exploring recent methodological trends coming from Anglo-American new historicism and cultural materialism and innovative analyses of intertextuality, the volume's four thematic sections deal with 'Theory and practice', 'Culture and tradition', 'Text and ideology' and 'Stage and spectacle'.In their own views and critical perspectives, the individual chapters throw fresh light on the dramatist's pliable technique of dramatic construction and break new ground in the field of influence studies and intertextuality as a whole.A rich bibliography of secondary literature and a detailed index round off the volume.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521667410

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The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Pdf

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