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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play

Editat de Dr Jennifer Flaherty, Professor Heather C. Easterling
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350217768
ISBN-10: 135021776X
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 3 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Seria Arden Shakespeare The State of Play

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Reveals the critical significance of The Taming of the Shrew's farcical, meta-theatrical and misogynistic legacy, providing approaches to teaching or writing about the play's troubling history and cultural currency

Notă biografică

Jennifer Flaherty is Associate Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Georgia College, USA, and her research emphasizes adaptation theory and global Shakespeare.Heather C. Easterling is Professor of English at Gonzaga University, USA, where she is a specialist in Renaissance Studies with research focused on early modern English drama and its urban context of 16th and 17th-century London.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Heather C. Easterling, (Gonzaga University, USA) and Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA) Part I. Taming Shrews: Negotiating Early Modern Gender 1 Shakespeare's New Shrew Erin E. Kelly (University of Victoria, Canada) 2 Home-Schooling the Girl Stomach David Goldstein (York University, Canada) 3 The Taming of the Shrew: Afterlives and Oeconomics Romola Nuttall (King's College London, UK) Part II. Staging Modern Shrews: The Politics of Performance 4 Sometimes Crossing a Line: The Taming of the Shrew in Chicago and Stratford-upon-Avon David Bevington (University of Chicago, USA) 5 The Taming of the Shrew in Soviet Russia: Ideological Dangers of Structural Instability Natalia Khomenko (York University, Toronto, Canada) 6 Dissident Feminism at the End of the Franco Dictatorship: The New Taming of the Shrew (1975) Juan F. Cerdá (University of Murcia, Spain) 7 The Turn of the Shrew: Cross-Gender Casting in the Twenty-First Century Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK) 8 'My tongue will tell the anger of my heart': Staging and Challenging Irish Womanhood at the Globe (2016) Emer McHugh, (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) Part III. Reclaiming the Shrew: Contemporary Transformations 9 Telling the Anger of Her Heart: (M)aligning the Stars in Taylor and Zeffirelli Taming of the Shrew Films Milla Cozart Riggio ( Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA) 10 'The Right Foundation': Remaking Marriage in a Black Adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA) 11 Taming the Internet: Katherina, Bianca, and Digital Girlhood Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA) 12 'Kate of My Consolation': Mary Cowden Clarke and Anne Tyler Revisit The Taming of the Shrew Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University, USA) Bibliography of Para-Texts, Productions, and Adaptations Index