The Taming of the Shrew (平装) 0486297659

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew. It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in 1594 as The Taming of the Shrew through several eighteenth-century versions to modern-dress productions and transformations into ballet, musical, film, and opera.Introducing this new edition, H.J. Oliver pays attention to the play's theatrical virtues while also providing a deeply considered study of its textual problems, structural complexities, and interpretive challenges.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced about 1593 and printed in the Folio of 1623.Considered one of Shakespeare's bawdier works, the play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry. The main story is offered as a play within a play; the frame story consists of an initial two-scene "induction": a lord offers the love story as an entertainment for tinker Christopher Sly, recovering from a drunken binge at an alehouse. Although Katharina repeatedly insults Petruchio, he woos, wins, and tames her by insisting that she is actually the soul of gentleness and patience. After their marriage, he makes her forgo food, sleep, and fancy clothing, and he outdoes her mean tongue by abusing the servants. In the final scene, Petruchio wins a bet that his wife is the most obedient after Katharina gives a speech extolling the virtues of wifely subservience.-- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review 'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.'The Oxford Times--This text refers to the Paperback edition. Product Description A raving misanthrope is transformed into a model of wifely deportment--but not without a struggle. Fast-paced dialogue and earthy humor contribute to the enduring popularity of this tale of a sixteenth-century battle of the sexes. Convenient size and low price make this unabridged edition perfect for students. The late H. J. Oliver was Professor of English at the University of New South Wales.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

出版社	Dover Publications Inc.
作者	William Shakespeare