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The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Paperback | Pages: 291 pages

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Original Title:	The Taming of the Shrew
ISBN:	074347757X (ISBN13: 9780743477574)
Edition Language:	English

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Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -against her will- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works.

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Title	:	The Taming of the Shrew
Author	:	William Shakespeare
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1593)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Fiction. Drama. Academic. School. Romance. Literature

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To celebrate William Shakespeare on his birthday in April, my plan is to locate a staging of six plays. I'll listen to and watch these on my MacBook, following along to as much of the original text as is incorporated by the production. Later, I'll read the entire play in the modern English version. A good friend I've had since high school recommended this system to me and it's been a very good system for delighting the mind in Shakespeare.Next up, The Taming of the Shrew. Because none of

The Taming of the Shrew, abridged.PETRUCHIO: Hey Mr Minola, I wanna marry your daughter. The fact that she comes included with an awesome dowry has nothing to do with this.BAPTISTA: Oh, I'm sorry, I have this jackass rule that my daughter Bianca can't get married until her evil older sister does, so...PETRUCHIO: No, I want to marry the Kate chick. My friends tell me she's a ballbusting bitch - a "shrew", if you will - and I love a challenge. BAPTISTA: SOLD! to the rich guy with a death wish.

"Why, there's a wench. Kiss me, Kate."This... is terribly sexist and I should have been appalled but I absolutely loved it! It was really funny.

The Arden Shakespeare series is, for my money, the premier set of editions for the rigorous study of Shakespeare's plays. In the case of one of Shakespeare's most popular (and most troubling) plays, editor Brian Morris makes a compelling case for Shakespeare's version of this play being the source rather than the revision of the stage tale, since there is another play with similar title from the same period which tells, much less poetically, the same story, of a man who brings his intended bride

Talk not to me. I shall go sit and weepTill I can find occasion of revenge. Like The Merchant of Venice, whose anti-Semitism makes us squirm, this play presents a sticky problem to modern audiences: was Shakespeare a misogynist? And it must be said that the misogyny present in this play is more difficult to excuse than the prejudice against poor Shylock, since Shakespeare is not clearly in sympathy with the titular shrew, Katherine, as he is with the Venetian merchant. So just as bardolaters

Re-reading the play this time, I liked it a little better than I thought I would. I predicted that the brutal treatment of Katharine by Petruchio would ruin the play for me, but it didn't. From the induction involving Christopher Sly, the text of "The Taming of the Shrew" is full of so many transformations (tinker to lord, page to lady, servant to rich young man, rich young man to teacher of grammar, rich suitor to music teacher, wandering scholar to prosperous merchant, etc.) as well as so many

I really dont buy the irony. Here is a play by a very young Shakespeare trying to appeal to the masses; here is a play that purposely appeals to the misogynistic beliefs of its early audiences, and I really dont like it. This is what should have happened at the end: Katherine:Im a Shrew; Im a woman who stands upFor herself and for her sisters alikeI have a voice; I will not be tamed byMen who think themselves overlords! Instead we have a rather meek speech in which a broken woman who has been