Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize Daileader Celia
Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize Daileader Celia This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John…
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Tamer Tamed; or, the Woman's Prize Daileader Celia
This is the first edition for students and general readers of this pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew' by a playwright (John Fletcher) who was more admired than Shakespeare in the seventeenth century.Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, this new textbook makes clear why The Tamer Tamed should be restored to the theatrical repertoire and the literary canon. The full critical introduction describes the play's Renaissance context, its historical and literary sources (including Aristophanes's Lysistrata), and its subversive relationship to Shakespeare's Shrew and Ben Jonson's The Silent Woman. It includes the fullest commentary ever provided for the play, explaining for modern students Fletcher's verbal exuberance and his uninhibited sexual language.
It also surveys the play's subsequent theatrical and critical history.A unique