1300 to 1576This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
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Contents
ABBREVIATIONS CUE TITLES ETC | xix |
BOOK ONE Openair Entertainments of the Middle Ages | 1 |
THE TOURNAMENT | 13 |
PAGEANT THEATRES OF THE STREETS | 51 |
MIRACLE PLAYS | 112 |
BOOK TWO Indoor Entertainments of the Middle Ages | 177 |
MUMMINGS AND DISGUISINGS | 191 |
MORALS AND INTERLUDES | 229 |
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| Title | 1300 to 1576 Volume 1 of Early English Stages 1300 to 1660, Glynne William Gladstone Wickham, ISBN 0415197821, 9780415197823 |
| Author | Glynne William Gladstone Wickham |
| Editor | Glynne William Gladstone Wickham |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 041519783X, 9780415197830 |
| Length | 510 pages |
| Subjects | › Performing Arts / Reference |
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