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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A collection of essays on Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew, showcasing the current ideas and debates surrounding the play and its contentious afterlife in the context of contemporary culture.
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 Shakespeares 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. Cerdį (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
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.
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