The taming of the shrew: [a guide to the text and its theatrical life]

How might Katherine's final speech be staged today as compared to the sixteenth century? Should it be ironic or sincere? This Handbook foregrounds performance and history as interpretative issue. It offers skills and materials with which to explore the ways in which Shakespeare's 'tro...

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Main Author: Kidnie, Margaret Jane 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2006
London ; New York <<The>> Arden Shakespeare 2022
Series:Shakespeare handbooks
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Online Access:DE-20
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Summary:How might Katherine's final speech be staged today as compared to the sixteenth century? Should it be ironic or sincere? This Handbook foregrounds performance and history as interpretative issue. It offers skills and materials with which to explore the ways in which Shakespeare's 'troubling comedy' or 'light tragedy' might take on meaning today
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 171 S.)
DOI:10.1057/978-0-230-20427-0

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