D. Wootton & G. Holderness 
Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700 [PDF ebook] 

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Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the ‘taming of the shrew’ story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essays address shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.

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Table of Content

Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Holderness Reading Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays; A.Bayman & G.Southcombe Shrews, Marriage and Murder; S.Clark Engendering Shrews, Mediaeval to Early Modern; H.S.Crocker ‘He speaks very shrewishly’: Apprentice-training and The Taming of the Shrew; R.Madelaine The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews; L.S.Marcus Putting the Silent Woman back into the Shakespearean Shrew; M.Maurer and B.Gaines Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew; H.J.Helmers ‘Ye sid he taken my Counsel sir’: Restoration Satire and Theatrical Authority; C.Conaway ‘Darkenes was before light’: Hierarchy and Duality in The Taming of A Shrew; G.Holderness The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew; J.Purnis The Tamer Tamed, or None Shall Have Prizes: ‘Equality’ in Shakespeare’s England; D.Wootton Afterword; A.Thompson Index

About the author

ANNA BAYMAN Faculty of History, Oxford University, UK SANDRA CLARK Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck, University of London UK CHARLES CONAWAY Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Indiana, US HOLLY A. CROCKER Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, US BARRY GAINES Professor of English Literature, University of New Mexico, US H.J. HELMERS English Department, University of Leiden, Netherlands GRAHAM HOLDERNESS Professor of English, University of Hertfordshire, UK RICHARD MADELEINE Associate Professor of English, University of New South Wales, Australia LEAH S. MARCUS Edwin Mims Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, US MARGARET MAURER William Henry Crawshaw Professor of Literature, Colgate University, US JAN PURNIS Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE Praelector in Early Modern History, University of Oxford, UK DAVID WOOTTON Anniversary Professor of History, University of York, UK

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 236 ● ISBN 9780230277489 ● File size 0.8 MB ● Editor D. Wootton & G. Holderness ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2010 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4968267 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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