The Taming of the Shrew

by Margaret Jane Kidnie

Book Overview

Few of Shakespeare's comedies have proved more popular and enduring than The Taming of the Shrew - and yet it has come to seem one of Shakespeare's more controversial plays. An analysis of the drama that is attentive to its theatrical challenges and stage history allows a better understanding of its power to provoke such diverse responses. How might Katerina's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? Must it be played for irony,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403945403
• ISBN13: 9781403945402
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 7.9"