The taming of the shrew : texts and contexts / [edited by] Frances E. Dolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Dolan, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1960-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marriage.

History.

Married people--Italy--Padua--Drama.

Married people.

Italy--Padua.

Marriage--History--Sources.

Genre:

Comedies.

Drama.

Physical Description:

xv, 347 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, [1996]

Summary:

This teaching edition of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew reprints the Bevington edition of the play, and is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations the matically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.

Contents:

Text and Contexts

The Induction

Shrews and Shrew Taming

Authority and Violence in the Household: Husbands and Wives; Masters, Mistresses, and Servants

The "Feme Convert": Katherine's Silences

Achieving the Marital Ideal: Sun and Moon

Endings and Alternatives

Part I William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew / David Bevington Bevington, David

Part II Early Modern Debates

1 Alternative Endings

From The Taming of a Shrew

From Catharine and Petruchio / David Garrick Garrick, David

2 Marriage

An Ideal and Its Contradictions

A Homily of the State of Matrimony

From A Looking Glass for Married Folks / Robert Snawsel Snawsel, Robert

The "Feme Covert": Married Women's Legal Status

From The Law's Resolutions of Women's Rights / T. E. E., T.

3 The Household: Authority and Violence

The Household

From A Godly Form of Household Government / John Dod Dod, John, Robert Cleaver Cleaver, Robert

Women's Work: Gender and the Division of Labor

"A Woman's Work Is Never Done"

"The Woman to the Plow, And the Man to the Hen-Roost"

Wife Beating

From A Bride-Bush / William Whately Whately, William

Of the Parts and Ends of a Man's Authority

From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises / William Gouge Gouge, William

Of Husbands Beating Their Wives

Servant Beating

From A New Catechism Set Forth Dialogue

Wise in Familiar Talk Between the Father and the Son / Thomas Becon Becon, Thomas

Of the Office of Masters or Householders Toward Their Servants

Of Masters' Maintaining Their Authority

Of Masters' Making Their Authority to Be Despised

Of Masters' Too Great Rigor

Of Masters' Commanding Power, Restrained to Things Lawful

Of the Power of Masters to Correct Their Servants

Of the Restraint of Masters' Power: That It Reacheth Not to Their Servants' Life

Of Masters' Excess in Correcting Servants

Of Masters' Ordering That Correction They Give to Their Servants

4 Shrews, Taming, and Untamed Shrews

"The Cruel Shrew"

A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel's Skin, for Her Good Behavior

"The Cucking of a Scold"

From The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy

Analogues to Shrew-taming

Falconry

From The Book of Falconry or Hawking / George Turberville Turberville, George

From Latham's Falconry / Simon Latham Latham, Simon

Watching A Witch

From The Discovery of Witches / Matthew Hopkins Hopkins, Matthew

From A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft / John Stearne Stearne, John

From A Candle in the Dark / Thomas Ady Ady, Thomas

Untamed Shrews

From A Caveat for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds / Thomas Harman Harman, Thomas

From A Curtain Lecture / Thomas Heywood Heywood, Thomas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334) and index.

ISBN:

0312158580

0312108362

OCLC:

34798683