The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

Dr Jennifer Flaherty, Professor Heather C. Easterling (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2021
The Arden Shakespeare (Verlag)
978-1-350-13819-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	26.03.2021
Reihe/Serie	Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
Zusatzinfo	3 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	395 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-13819-3 / 1350138193
ISBN-13	978-1-350-13819-3 / 9781350138193
Zustand	Neuware