The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts

Shakespeare, William

ISBN 10: 0312108362 / ISBN 13: 9780312108366

Verlag: Bedford Books, 1996

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This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.

Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts
Verlag: Bedford Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket