Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew / edited by Margaret Dupuis and Grace Tiffany.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dupuis, Margaret, 1950- editor.

Tiffany, Grace, 1958- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Taming of the shrew.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Physical Description:

xii, 248 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2013.

Summary:

The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover why a play notorious for its controversial exploration of conflicts between men and women and the challenges of marriage is enduringly popular in the classroom, in the performing arts, and in scholarship. The result is a volume that offers practical advice to teachers on editions and teaching resources in part 1, "Materials," while illuminating how the play's subtle and complex arguments regarding not just marriage but a host of other subjects-modes of early modern education, the uses of clever rhetoric, intergenerational and class politics, the power of theater-are being brought to life in college classrooms. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," are written by English and theater instructors who have taught in a variety of academic settings and cover topics including early modern homilies and music, Hollywood versions of The Taming of the Shrew, and student performances. Book jacket.

Contents:

Teaching form in The Taming of the Shrew

A puzzle for students: Is Shakespeare's shrew tamed or unmasked?

Teaching wit: Attention to barbed dialog in The Taming of the Shrew

Pervasive contentiousness in The Taming of the Shrew

Reading Bianca

Reversing the polarity: teaching textual practices through The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew as introduction to a Shakespeare course

"To serve, love, and obey?": The Taming of the Shrew and early modern marriage

"The woman is a weak creature": The Homily of matrimony and The Taming of the Shrew

Music, Ovid, and the Renaissance classroom in The Taming of the Shrew

"To teach both sexes due equality"

Kate, the commonplace: the framing of the Shrew

"Practise rhetoric in your common talk": The Taming of the Shrew as an exercise in rhetorical strategy

Fifteen women and Nick Sly, the astophysicist: staging critical engagements with The Taming of the Shrew

Students stage Shrew! The theater as classroom

What does the introduction do? Introducing concepts of action

The teaching of a Shrew: Exploring textual differences through classroom performance

The Harlequin The Taming of the Shrew

Scenes from a Renaissance marriage: The Taming of the Shrew on film

Whose play is it, anyway? Viewing The Taming of the Shrew pedagogically

Playing with the meat of the matter: A Props exercise

Using performance to teach textual skepticism in The Taming of the Shrew

Cross-dressing, comic power inversions, and "supposes": Performing the beginning and the end of The Taming of the Shrew

Dominating humor in The Taming of the Shrew

What's in a word? Teaching play with the OED

"She strikes him": Stage work and The Taming of the Shrew

Performance DVD: From the stage to the page (and back again).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781603291187

1603291180

9781603291194

1603291199

OCLC:

852682006