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The taming of the shrew : an authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations /

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeares earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).

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Main Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Group Author: Callaghan, Dympna
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2009]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: A Norton critical edition
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Summary: This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeares earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).
It is accompanied by A Note on the Text and detailed explanatory annotations.
Criticism offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on The Taming of the Shrews 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 Appropriations collects seven adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
Carrier Form: xvi, 356 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356).
ISBN: 9780393927078 (paperback) :
0393927075 (paperback)
Index Number: PR2832
CLC: I561.073
I561.33
Call Number: I561.33/S527-109
Contents: The text of The Taming of the Shrew -- Sources and Contexts -- Criticism -- Rewritings and Appropriations.