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This edition of the Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew features an extenstive array of primary documents to help contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence.

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Author:   W Shakespeare ,  University Frances E Dolan (Miami University)
Publisher:   Macmillan Learning
Imprint:   Bedford/Saint Martin's
Edition:   1st ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780312108366

ISBN 10:   0312108362
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 March 1996
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781319054601
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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 : Katherine's 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 Women's Legal Status T. E., From The Law's Resolutions of Women's Rights 3. The Household: Authority and Violence The Household John Dod and Robert Cleaver, From A Godly Form of Household Government Women's Work: Gender and the Division of Labor A Woman's 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 Man's 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 Morel's 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 Latham's 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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