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Inputs from Charles and Mary Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare" applied to certain dialogues from William Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of The Shrew"
The present paper, firstly, is going to deal with my translation of a short passage of The Taming of the Shrew into the present English. I would like to notice an interesting observation made by Crystal that rather than the term... more
This paper provides a summary of Factortame I and Factortame II
Feminist studies of all ages have focused on the characters in plays of Shakespeare in order to constitute a canonical tradition and to reflect the patriarchal era in which they were written. The representation of women in Shakespearean... more
By examining Shakespeare’s interrogation of humanism as an effective form of training, this paper argues that Petruchio’s use of humanist methodology achieves a degree of success that has gone unrecognized by critics. The domestic sphere... more
The central case study of this paper is the 1985 production of The Taming of the Shrew in Ankara State Theatres directed by Yücel Erten, which was a production where a male non-Anglophone director successfully subverted the play into a... more
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/chinese-shakespeares/9780231148481 For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From... more
This article discusses the adaptation film, Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew, as compared to original play, The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare by highlighting the different modern perspective of the film. Likely to be... more
The 400 year old question is "Did Petruchio truly tame Kate?" and I suggest that instead of what appears on the surface as Kate becoming a tamed wife, she has actually tamed the tamer and learned to get her own way.
Theatre Reviews Section of Multicultural Shakespeares, Dec 2014. Section includes my pp.81-97 review of: The Taming of the Shrew, Globe to Globe, dir. Haissam Hussain, 26-27 May 2012. Also pp. 98-110, Saffron Walkling's review of... more
The central thematic and formal principle in The Taming of the Shrew is its conversion of oppositions into dialectics, so that initially adversarial relationships or hierarchies become vehicles of reciprocal exchange. This is accomplished... more
We argue for the relevance of a contemporary return to Shakespeare because his work prompts thinking about the Body Politic, perhaps the most vivid and enduring image in speech describing political community ever proposed. Through his... more
This article discusses the adaptation film, Shakespeare Retold: The Taming of the Shrew, as compared to original play, The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare by highlighting the different modern perspective of the film. Likely to be... more
Named the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto,... more
Katherina’s final speech at the end of Act 5.2 in The Taming of the Shrew has long caused confusion among scholars for its perceived condemnation of women, directing that wives are “bound to serve, love, and obey,” their bodies “Unapt to... more
Even though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades,... more
The essay aims to offer a thorough analysis of the influence exerted by Ludovico Ariosto's I Suppositi on William Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew through George Gascoigne's translation, Supposes, and to underscore how crucial a... more
Edited volume with chapters by George Anastaplo, Joseph Alulis, Tim Burns, Nessaer Behnegar, Pamela Jensen, Peter Meilaender, Nalin Ranasinghe, Dustin Gish, B. J. Dobski, Tim Spiekerman, Laurence Nee, Robert Schaefer, and David... more
Discusses various formal approaches to "The Taming of the Shrew," emphasizing: the title; genre; pronouns of power and degree; verse and prose; and roles. Includes a section on further reading.
This article aims at analysing how fear is represented in Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Although a first interpretation of the play hints at the fact that fear should be found mainly in Kate, many critics have claimed that this... more
Can we entertain the idea that The Taming of the Shrew can be performed and received as comedy in the post-Women’s March US? If so, would the laughter be empathetic and solidary rather than callous? The answer lies in physical theater... more
Explores the various dramatic, poetic and narrative versions of the popular 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in the light of new historical work on the place of early modern women in... more
Writing back in 1997, W.B. Worthen observed that "actual stage performance" had been largely "omitted from the catalogue of 'discourses' that inform criticism" (Shakespeare and 154). Now over twenty years later, the situation has changed.... more
O objetivo do artigo foi analisar a telenovela brasileira em múltiplas plataformas a partir da semiótica da comunicação estética por meio de um breve exercício de decomposição estrutural. Após introdução a respeito da telenovela... more
Readers are invited to consult the select chronology on the history of Shakespeare performance and Sinophone cultural history.
O objetivo do artigo foi analisar a telenovela brasileira em múltiplas plataformas a partir da semiótica da comunicação estética por meio de um breve exercício de decomposição estrutural. Após introdução a respeito da telenovela... more
Ideologies about race, gender, and class shape Shakespeare's plays and their afterlife on stage and on screen. We will do close readings of racial tensions and gendered representations in the plays and select performances. The class will... more
In a conversation with playwright and actor Kate Hennig, scholar Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University) offers ways of looking at The Taming of the Shrew and female characters in Shakespeare's plays from our 21st-century... more
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Shakespeare has been used to divert around censorship, “sanitised” and redacted for children, young adults and school use, and even used as a form of protest all over the world.
Few scholars have addressed Arabic adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew, though it remains among the most popular Shakespearean comedies in the Arab world. The first Arabic performance of Shrew in Egypt in 1930 marked a significant... more