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The Taming of the Shrew: A Norton Critical Edition
William Shakespeare
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Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623). Editor(s): Callaghan, Dympna. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 132 x 42. Weight in Grams: 374.
It is accompanied by “A Note on the Text” and detailed explanatory annotations.
It is accompanied by “A Note on the Text” and detailed explanatory annotations.
“Sources and Contexts” provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare’s controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne’s “Supposes,” and “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin.”
“Criticism” offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on The Taming of the Shrew’s in fifteen essays by Laurie Maguire, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bernard Shaw, Natasha Korda, Frances Dolan, Lynda E. Boose, Harold Bloom, Patricia Parker, Shirley Nelson Garner, Juliet Dusinberre, Marea Mitchell, Karen Newman, E. M. W. Tillyard, and Jan Harold Brunvand.
“Rewritings and ... Read more
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393927078
SKU
V9780393927078
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99-50
About William Shakespeare
Dympna Callaghan is Dean’s Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. She is the author of Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of Othello, King Lear, The Duchess of Malfi, and The White Devil, Shakespeare without Women, Shakespeare’s Sonnets: An Introduction, and co-author of The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics. Her edited books include Feminist Readings in ... Read more
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