Cover: The Taming of the Shrew, 1st Edition by William Shakespeare; Edited by Frances E. Dolan

The Taming of the Shrew

First Edition  ©1996 William Shakespeare; Edited by Frances E. Dolan Formats: Print

Authors

  • Headshot of William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist and poet. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

  • Headshot of Frances E. Dolan

    Frances E. Dolan

Table of Contents

  Preface
  Introduction
    Text and Contexts
    The Induction
    Shrews and Shrew Taming
    Authority and Violence in the Household: Husbands and Wives; Masters, Mistresses, and Servants
    The "Feme Convert": Katherines Silences
    Achieving the Marital Ideal: Sun and Moon
    Endings and Alternatives
    
PART I: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
    
PART II: EARLY MODERN DEBATES
    
  1. Alternative Endings
       From The Taming of a Shrew
       David Garrick, From Catharine and Petruchio
    
  2. Marriage
    An Ideal and Its Contradictions
       A Homily of the State of Matrimony
       Robert Snawsel, From A Looking Glass for Married Folks
    The "Feme Covert": Married Womens Legal Status
       T. E., From The Laws Resolutions of Womens Rights
    
  3. The Household: Authority and Violence
    The Household
       John Dod and Robert Cleaver, From A Godly Form of Household Government
    Womens Work: Gender and the Division of Labor
       "A Womans Work Is Never Done"
       "The Woman to the Plow, And the Man to the Hen-Roost"
    Wife Beating
       William Whately, From A Bride-Bush
          Of the Parts and Ends of a Mans Authority
       William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
          Of Husbands Beating Their Wives
    Servant Beating
       Thomas Becon, From A New Catechism Set Forth Dialogue--Wise in Familiar Talk Between the Father and the Son
          Of the Office of Masters or Householders Toward Their Servants
       William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
          Of Masters Maintaining Their Authority
          Of Masters Making Their Authority to Be Despised
          Of Masters Too Great Rigor
          Of Masters Commanding Power, Restrained to Things Lawful
          Of the Power of Masters to Correct Their Servants
          Of the Restraint of Masters Power: That It Reacheth Not to Their Servants Life
          Of Masters Excess in Correcting Servants
          Of Masters Ordering That Correction They Give to Their Servants
    
  4. Shrews, Taming, and Untamed Shrews
    Shrews and Shrew Taming
       "The Cruel Shrew"
       A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morels Skin, for Her Good Behavior
       "The Cucking of a Scold"
       From The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy
    Analogues to Shrew-taming
       Falconry
       George Turberville, From The Book of Falconry or Hawking
       Simon Latham, From Lathams Falconry
    Watching A Witch
       Matthew Hopkins, From The Discovery of Witches
       John Stearne, From A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft
       Thomas Ady, From A Candle in the Dark
    Untamed Shrews
       Thomas Harman, From A Caveat for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds
       Thomas Heywood, From A Curtain Lecture
    
  Bibliography
  Index

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Authors

  • Headshot of William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist and poet. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.

  • Headshot of Frances E. Dolan

    Frances E. Dolan

Table of Contents

  Preface
  Introduction
    Text and Contexts
    The Induction
    Shrews and Shrew Taming
    Authority and Violence in the Household: Husbands and Wives; Masters, Mistresses, and Servants
    The "Feme Convert": Katherines Silences
    Achieving the Marital Ideal: Sun and Moon
    Endings and Alternatives
    
PART I: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)
    
PART II: EARLY MODERN DEBATES
    
  1. Alternative Endings
       From The Taming of a Shrew
       David Garrick, From Catharine and Petruchio
    
  2. Marriage
    An Ideal and Its Contradictions
       A Homily of the State of Matrimony
       Robert Snawsel, From A Looking Glass for Married Folks
    The "Feme Covert": Married Womens Legal Status
       T. E., From The Laws Resolutions of Womens Rights
    
  3. The Household: Authority and Violence
    The Household
       John Dod and Robert Cleaver, From A Godly Form of Household Government
    Womens Work: Gender and the Division of Labor
       "A Womans Work Is Never Done"
       "The Woman to the Plow, And the Man to the Hen-Roost"
    Wife Beating
       William Whately, From A Bride-Bush
          Of the Parts and Ends of a Mans Authority
       William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
          Of Husbands Beating Their Wives
    Servant Beating
       Thomas Becon, From A New Catechism Set Forth Dialogue--Wise in Familiar Talk Between the Father and the Son
          Of the Office of Masters or Householders Toward Their Servants
       William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
          Of Masters Maintaining Their Authority
          Of Masters Making Their Authority to Be Despised
          Of Masters Too Great Rigor
          Of Masters Commanding Power, Restrained to Things Lawful
          Of the Power of Masters to Correct Their Servants
          Of the Restraint of Masters Power: That It Reacheth Not to Their Servants Life
          Of Masters Excess in Correcting Servants
          Of Masters Ordering That Correction They Give to Their Servants
    
  4. Shrews, Taming, and Untamed Shrews
    Shrews and Shrew Taming
       "The Cruel Shrew"
       A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morels Skin, for Her Good Behavior
       "The Cucking of a Scold"
       From The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy
    Analogues to Shrew-taming
       Falconry
       George Turberville, From The Book of Falconry or Hawking
       Simon Latham, From Lathams Falconry
    Watching A Witch
       Matthew Hopkins, From The Discovery of Witches
       John Stearne, From A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft
       Thomas Ady, From A Candle in the Dark
    Untamed Shrews
       Thomas Harman, From A Caveat for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds
       Thomas Heywood, From A Curtain Lecture
    
  Bibliography
  Index

Product Updates

This teaching edition of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeares work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeares play, and documents on womens legal status. The primary documents contextualize the plays treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.
 
Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

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