Gender and power in shrew-taming narratives, 1500-1700 / edited by David Wootton and Graham Holderness.


Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Shrews in pamphlets and plays / Anna Bayman and George Southcombe — Shrews, marriage and murder / Sandra Clark — Engendering shrews: Medieval to early modern / Holly A. Crocker — ‘He speaks very shrewishly’: apprentice-training and The taming of the shrew / Richard Madelaine — The shrew as editor/editing shrews / Leah S. Marcus — Putting the silent woman back into the Shakespearean shrew / Margaret Maurer and Barry Gaines — Unknown shrews: three transformations of the/a shrew / Helmer J. Helmers — ‘Ye sid ha taken my counsel sir’: restoration satire and theatrical authority / Charles Conaway — ‘Darkenes was before light’: hierarchy and duality in The taming of a shrew / Graham Holderness — The gendered stomach in The taming of the shrew / Jan Purnis — The tamer tamed, or none shall have prizes: ‘Equality’ in Shakespeare’s England / David Wootton — Afterword: ‘Thus have I politicly ended my reign’ / Ann Thompson.

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Requested by Green, D.

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