Much Ado About Nothing and the Taming of the Shrew,9780333657904

Much Ado About Nothing and the Taming of the Shrew

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ISBN13: 9780333657904
ISBN10: 033365790X
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2001-04-07
Publisher(s): Red Globe Pr
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Summary

Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew are two of Shakespeare's most exciting and challenging comedies and the essays collected here offer various ways of interpreting them. The range of approaches covers traditional close reading, feminism, New Historicism, deconstruction, and Marxism, as well as essays on both stage and film productions of the plays. The plays are thus contextualized both historically and in terms of Shakespeare's canon. The introduction discusses the key concepts focused on by the specific essays and offers a way of negotiating the wide array of insightful and scholarly material collected in this new casebook.

Author Biography

Marion Wynne-Davies is Reader in English at the University of Dundee.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
General Editors' Preface ix
Introduction: Marion Wynne-Davies 1(12)
Much Ado About Nothing
Against the Sink-a-Pace: Sexual and Family Politics in Much Ado About Nothing
13(18)
Harry Berger
Half a Dozen Dangerous Words
31(20)
S. P. Cerasano
Much Ado About Nothing: The Unsociable Comedy
51(18)
Barbara Everett
Much Ado About Nothing: A Kind of Merry War
69(34)
Penny Gay
Antitheatricality Staged. The Workings of Ideology in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
103(20)
Jean E. Howard
The Taming of the Shrew
The Turn of the Shrew
123(25)
Joel Fineman
Renaissance Family Politics and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
148(18)
Karen Newman
Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member
166(26)
Lynda E. Boose
Household Kates: Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew
192(34)
Natasha Korda
A Shrew For the Times
226(25)
Diana E. Henderson
Further Reading 251(3)
Notes on Contributors 254(2)
Index 256

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