Gender and Power in Shrew-taming Narratives, 1500-1700

by Wootton, David; Holderness, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780230240926
• ISBN10: 0230240925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Including essays by a range of leading scholars, this is the first collection to address the historical interrelationships of the various dramatic versions of the popularTaming of the Shrewwritten and performed in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, looking at these plays as an extended cultural dialogue.

Author Biography

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, UK. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and has held chairs in history and in politics at the University of Victoria (Canada), Brunel University, Queen Mary (University of London) and the University of York. He has published widely on Renaissance Intellectual History, particularly on atheism and on egalitarianism.
Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire and author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama. Recent books include Textual Shakespeare: Writing and the Word (2004) and Shakespeare and Venice (2010). He is author of Shakespeare in Performance: The Taming of the Shrew (1989), and editor of The Taming of A Shrew (1992). He is currently working on a biography of Shakespeare.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays	p. 11
Shrews, Marriage and Murder	p. 29
Engendering Shrews: Medieval to Early Modern	p. 48
'He speaks very shrewishly': Apprentice-training and The Taming of the Shrew	p. 70
The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews	p. 84
Putting the Silent Woman Back into the Shakespearean Shrew	p. 101
Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew	p. 123
'Ye sid ha taken my Counsel sir': Restoration Satire and Theatrical Authority	p. 145
'Darkenes was before light': Hierarchy and Duality in The Taming of A Shrew	p. 169
The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew	p. 185
The Tamer Tamed, or None Shall Have Prizes: 'Equality' in Shakespeare's England	p. 206
Afterword: 'Thus have I politicly ended my reign'	p. 226
Index	p. 232
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