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| Author: William Shakespeare | Editor: Barbara A. Mowat Paul Werstine |
EARN 105 SUPER POINTS!
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Product Summary
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Perfection Learning Pre Bind
ISBN-10: 0812416716
ISBN-13: 9780812416718
Buy.com Sku: 209849866
Publish Date: 10/6/2008
Pages:
251
Age Range:
16 to 21
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| These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library''s vast holdings of rare books. Reissue. (Plays/Drama) |
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Shakespeare's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is a viciously witty battle of the sexes with, some critics claim, a sharp misogynistic edge. The play begins with a framing device: a drunken tinker becomes the butt of a practical joke when he is dressed up as lord and convinced that he is a wealthy noble. While under this delusion, he witnesses a troupe of actors perform the main plot of THE TAMING OF SHREW. In Padua, Italy, three suitors woo the beautiful and demure Bianca. The only hitch is that Bianca's wealthy father has declared that no one will have Bianca's hand until her famously foul-tempered and violent older sister, Katherine--the "shrew" of the play's title--has been married. Enter Petruchio, a brash young man willing to marry into money regardless of who the woman might be. After marrying Katherine he embarks on an elaborate scheme--involving starvation, sleep deprivation, and a perverse insistence on the impossible--to bend her to his will. By the time the two return to Padua, everyone is shocked to discover that not only does Katherine obey her new husband, but even seems to love him--while meanwhile the now-married Bianca has become disobedient and obstinate. Full of rich rhetorical skirmishes, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW explores the humorous but troubling relationships among power, language, and love.
Shakespeare's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW is a viciously witty battle of the sexes with, some critics claim, a sharp misogynistic edge. The play begins with a framing device: a drunken tinker becomes the butt of a practical joke when he is dressed up as lord and convinced that he is a wealthy noble. While under this delusion, he witnesses a troupe of actors perform the main plot of THE TAMING OF SHREW. In Padua, Italy, three suitors woo the beautiful and demure Bianca. The only hitch is that Bianca's wealthy father has declared that no one will have Bianca's hand until her famously foul-tempered and violent older sister, Katherine--the "shrew" of the play's title--has been married. Enter Petruchio, a brash young man willing to marry into money regardless of who the woman might be. After marrying Katherine he embarks on an elaborate scheme--involving starvation, sleep deprivation, and a perverse insistence on the impossible--to bend her to his will. By the time the two return to Padua, everyone is shocked to discover that not only does Katherine obey her new husband, but even seems to love him--while meanwhile the now-married Bianca has become disobedient and obstinate. Full of rich rhetorical skirmishes, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW explores the humorous but troubling relationships among power, language, and love.
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