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The Taming of the Shrew: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 Paperback – 8 January 2010

by William Shakespeare (Author), Dympna Callaghan (Editor)
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This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623).

It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations.

"Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel's Skin."

"Criticism" offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on The Taming of the Shrew's in fifteen essays by Laurie Maguire, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bernard Shaw, Natasha Korda, Frances Dolan, Lynda E. Boose, Harold Bloom, Patricia Parker, Shirley Nelson Garner, Juliet Dusinberre, Marea Mitchell, Karen Newman, E. M. W. Tillyard, and Jan Harold Brunvand.

"Rewritings and Appropriations" collects seven adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz.

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

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Dympna Callaghan is Dean's Professor in the Humanities at Syracuse University. She is the author of Women and Gender in Renaissance Tragedy: A Study of Othello, King Lear, The Duchess of Malfi, and The White Devil, Shakespeare without Women, Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction, and co-author of The Weyward Sisters: Shakespeare and Feminist Politics. Her edited books include Feminist Readings in Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects (with Valerie Traub and Lindsay Kaplan), John Webster's Duchess of Malfi: Contemporary Critical Essays, Romeo and Juliet: Texts and Contexts, The Impact of Feminism in English Renaissance Studies, and The Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393927075
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393927078
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.95 x 2.29 x 21.34 cm
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William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was baptised on 26 April 1564. Thought to have been educated at the local grammar school, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he went on to have three children, at the age of eighteen, before moving to London to work in the theatre. Two erotic poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece were published in 1593 and 1594 and records of his plays begin to appear in 1594 for Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI. Shakespeare's tragic period lasted from around 1600 to 1608, during which period he wrote plays including Hamlet and Othello. The first editions of the sonnets were published in 1609 but evidence suggests that Shakespeare had been writing them for years for a private readership.

Shakespeare spent the last five years of his life in Stratford, by now a wealthy man. He died on 23 April 1616 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. The first collected edition of his works was published in 1623.

(The portrait details: The Chandos portrait, artist and authenticity unconfirmed. NPG1, © National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Natasha
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in Canada on 10 September 2018
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E. Conway
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2015
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excellent text and supporting essays, reference etc
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5.0 out of 5 stars To woo her, wed her, and bed her, and rid the house of her
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Normally when buying an individual Shakespeare play, I would go with an Arden edition. In this case I was aware that there was an original source play called Taming a Shrew published anonymously in 1594.

One of the peculiarities of the play is the Induction Scene with Christophero Sly appearing at the beginning of the play and a Lord spies as being drunk and decides with his servants to play a practical joke, and when Sly wakes up treat him like a Lord.

It's quite an amusing sequence, yet we hear no more from this character Sly,and that storyline is left unresolved.

I went with the Norton Edition hoping to get some clarity between this and the source play which begins with an induction by a character named Sly, and has Kate as a lead character.

The Norton edition does contain extracts from source materials. I particularly liked reading the 1550 anonymous poem, and extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and other plays, and contains about 8 pages of Taming a Shrew, where Sly reappears throughout the play, and the play itself is the dream of Sly.

There is also an essay by Harold Bloom.

Now, if you're like me you want the total understanding, so I also recommend the original play Taming a Shrew, published by Frederick Boas, a great scholar on both Kyd and Marlowe.

If you are an Amazon Prime member as I write you can watch the Zeffirelli version of  The Taming Of The Shrew (1967)  for free. I don't know how long this will last.

Some scholars are of the opinion that Shakespeare also wrote the original play. Making such a claim though is a double edged sword. If one credits the original play to Shakespeare, the play contains so many allusions to Marlowe and parallel lines with other Marlowe plays, that you would have to say the play either was written by Marlowe, or someone blatantly apeing Marlowe's style making him a plagiarist.

The original play shares a common setting Marlowe's Hero and Leander, with reference to their story, and to the Hellespont and Sestos where their story is set. The Marlowe poem registered shortly before his death in 1593 under dubious circumstances would not be published until 1598.

According to Henslowe's diary Taming a Shrew was performed multiple times in 1592 and afterwards. There is no performance record of the Shakespeare play before 1623. This is one of many examples of prototype anonymous plays issued which would be followed by Shakespeare plays with similar titles. Other examples would be Richard III 1594, Titus Andronicus 1594, Famous Victories of Henry V 1598, and King Leir 1605, all anonymous, and the Ur Hamlet of which only remnants survive attributed to Kyd.

I recommend this edition, and if you wish to explore further, I recommend  The Taming of a Shrew: Being the Original of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew . I bought it at al another ibris online vendor.

After writing this review I discovered a very reasonably priced option  Three Shrew Plays: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; with The Anonymous The Taming of a Shrew & Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed which includes Fletcher's response play A Woman's Prize aka The Tamer Tamed.

If I had to do this over again I would probably get that edition.

I think you will love it, and I hope this was helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reaches into unappreciated depths...
Reviewed in the United States on 28 March 2014
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I would have trouble rating anything by Shakespeare less than five stars, I believe he was an absolute genius in terms of understanding human psychology and expressing it in such an exfoliating manner that it in effect justifies the existence of the English language.
This play is a wonderful example of playful deliberation on the part of a number of different characters. Petruchio seems to be the most obtuse character at first, opting for Kate on something of a whim, despite people around him giving him fair warning that she would be less than the ideal choice. Bianca is a much more "conventional" choice, if you will, and Shakespeare of course is subtle enough to choose names which echo many different dimensions of meaning (Bianca = white; Katherine = cat, feral, untamed), as a number of his puns will suggest. Grumio's name is actually Groom + Italian ending...
I think that the comedy of conjugal union is in focus here, perhaps as less of the actual primary intent of the play, but as a byproduct of it.

Consider the passage in Act 4, scene 5:

PETRUCHIO
Come on, i' God’s name, once more toward our father’s.
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!

KATHERINE
The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.

PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.

KATHERINE
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.

HORTENSIO
(to KATHERINE) Say as he says, or we shall never go.

PETRUCHIO
I say it is the moon.

KATHERINE
I know it is the moon.

This is obviously a very abridged version, but it is one of the most interesting and revealing exchanges (much contained in parts I omitted); indeed, in order for any kind of union to happen in this world, there must be some degree of modification of one's own personal prisms through which the world is seen, and the "shared delusion" of the possibility of sharing one mind can only be sustained by an utmost betrayal of one's own mental processes; yet, as Wilfred Bion has said, it takes two people to think a thought, so we betray ourselves either way.
Kate's speech at the end (infamous) has been interpreted in a number of ways, and many feel it is with a sense of irony that she espouses that which a spouse should do for the sake of her marriage... yet even if there is irony to it, it does not eliminate the fact that she will probably indeed act as she speaks, despite perhaps her better judgment. There is a greater conformity that needs to be tended to, one must not say no... That applies to us in so many realms of our lives; whatever liveliness is contained in us must, for some ineffable "greater good," be tamed and shaped into what has been expected of us. All the fantasy and playing about cannot shield our eyes from a fundamentally disturbing truth this play touches upon.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Wrong book!
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This is most definitely not the Norton Critical Edition that I paid for. I needed this for a class and there is no way that I will get another in time. Thanks a lot for costing me a letter grade that I have worked so hard for.
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Reviewed in the United States on 11 June 2015
This is most definitely not the Norton Critical Edition that I paid for. I needed this for a class and there is no way that I will get another in time. Thanks a lot for costing me a letter grade that I have worked so hard for.
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