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Afterword: ‘Thus have I politicly ended my reign’
It would seem that to edit a play gives one some kind of long-term investment in it. I edited The Taming of the Shrew as long ago as 1984, though Cambridge University Press allowed me to update my edition in 2003...
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Introduction
A decade ago materialist-feminist and historicist criticism of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew had reached something of an impasse. In 1996, summarising the fortunes of the shrew over the previous ten years...
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Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays
It is a commonplace that to read The Taming of the Shrew followed by Much Ado about Nothing is to witness the same author examining gender relationships in wholly different ways. According to one line of argument...
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Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern
When Petruchio humiliates Katherine on their wedding day, her father Baptista identifies the feminine bearing of the central term in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew (1623): ‘[S]uch an injury would vex a saint, ...
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The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews
I recently had the somewhat dubious pleasure of watching a low-budget horror film from 1959 that is now considered a minor classic: The Killer Shrews. The film’s hero is a daring young sailor who lands on an isla...
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The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew
In the horror film called The Killer Shrews (1959) mentioned by Leah Marcus in her essay appearing in this collection, the film’s scientists use shrews in studies of population control, before, that is, the shrew...
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Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew
Although it is well known that English strolling players achieved quite some success during their travels on the continent, the impact of their mediation between theatrical cultures has been systematically dow...
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Shrews, Marriage and Murder
There was a common form of humour in early modern England known as the dead wife joke, which appears in various guises. John Taylor the water-poet, a fund of misogynistic wisdom, has a version which he calls ‘...
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‘He speaks very shrewishly’: Apprentice-training and The Taming of the Shrew
In this essay The Taming of the Shrew 1 will be read as a document that may shed light on issues of theatrical apprentice-training in Shakespeare’s day. Juliet Dusinberre2 and Michael Shapiro3 have written in gen...
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‘Darkenes was before light’: Hierarchy and Duality in The Taming of A Shrew
One of the most substantive differences between Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and the anonymous The Taming of A Shrew lies in that most controversial and contested moment of the action, Kate’s final speec...
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Putting the Silent Woman Back into the Shakespearean Shrew
The ‘silent woman’ of the Shakespearean Taming of the Shrew is Bianca. Her silence is not absolute, of course, but relative, compared to the noisy resistance of her shrewish sister Katherina; and, of course, her ...
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The Tamer Tamed, or None Shall Have Prizes: “Equality” in Shakespeare’s England
Since the 2003 Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Tamer Tamed (in conjunction with The Taming of the Shrew) there has been a growing consensus that Fletcher’s play is a “pro-woman” or “feminist” text, an...
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‘Ye sid ha taken my Counsel sir’: Restoration Satire and Theatrical Authority
The second volume of the popular 1703 poetical miscellany, Poems on Affairs of State includes ‘A Satyr by the Lord Rochester, which King Charles took out of his Pocket.’ The title of the poem recalls the events s...
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The Muse Exhumed
The muse is dead. Killed, according to Arlene Croce, by feminism. Croce paraphrases the feminist argument against the muse thus:
We know the arguments: Muses are passive, therefore passé. Muses are...
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Postscript: Old Sir Walter
Anyone familiar with the history of gentlemanly representation will understand what then happened to Scott. In becoming an authority on what makes men gentlemen, like countless writers before him, Scott quickl...
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Conclusion
Carter described the sixties as a period that ‘felt like Year One’, but the feeling proved to be illusory. Like every ‘Year One’ before or since, it failed to fulfil its promise. Nevertheless, the intellectual...
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Introduction
This is a book about the struggle to define “the gentleman” during the long eighteenth century and about the role this struggle played in the development of literary forms. Focusing on a familiar yet unexamine...
