The taming of the shrew /
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
The taming of the shrew / William Shakespeare ; edited by Brian Morris. - c1997.
edited by David Bevington. The Taming of the Shrew shows Shakespeare's comic genius at its best. At the same time,it shares with his other plays an anticipation of the direction that his genius is to take in Much Ado About Nothing and other comedies of the later 1590's.By skillfuly juxtaposing two plots and an induction ,or framing plot, it offers contrasting views on the battle of the sexes.This debate on the nature of the love relationship will continue through many later comedies.The play also adroitly manipualtes the device of mistaken identity as in The Comdedy of Errors,inverting appearance and reality,dreaming and waking,and the master-servant relationship in order to create a transformed Saturnalian world."In The Complete Works of Shakespeare "5ht edition
The taming of the shrew / William Shakespeare ; edited by Brian Morris. - c1997.
edited by David Bevington. The Taming of the Shrew shows Shakespeare's comic genius at its best. At the same time,it shares with his other plays an anticipation of the direction that his genius is to take in Much Ado About Nothing and other comedies of the later 1590's.By skillfuly juxtaposing two plots and an induction ,or framing plot, it offers contrasting views on the battle of the sexes.This debate on the nature of the love relationship will continue through many later comedies.The play also adroitly manipualtes the device of mistaken identity as in The Comdedy of Errors,inverting appearance and reality,dreaming and waking,and the master-servant relationship in order to create a transformed Saturnalian world."In The Complete Works of Shakespeare "5ht edition
