The Taming of the ShrewClarendon Press, 1982 - 248 pages The introduction offers a full and original consideration fo th play's textual problems, a study of sources, a survey of scholarship and criticism, with the editor's own critical appreciation, and a study of the comedy's fortunes in the theatre. |
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... Quarto texts of the play.2 The Quarto : The Taming of A Shrew On 2 May 1594 , there was entered on the Stationers ' Register , to Peter Shorte , ' a booke intituled A plesant Conceyted historie called the Tayminge of a Shrowe ' ; 3 and ...
... Quarto texts of the play.2 The Quarto : The Taming of A Shrew On 2 May 1594 , there was entered on the Stationers ' Register , to Peter Shorte , ' a booke intituled A plesant Conceyted historie called the Tayminge of a Shrowe ' ; 3 and ...
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... quarto , and not to all earlier quartos ; and once W. W. Greg had shown that the Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor , for exam- ple , was an attempt to reconstruct the authentic text , from memory , and Peter Alexander that The First ...
... quarto , and not to all earlier quartos ; and once W. W. Greg had shown that the Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor , for exam- ple , was an attempt to reconstruct the authentic text , from memory , and Peter Alexander that The First ...
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... Quarto of The Shrew ' , but we should indeed ' concede that it is of rather a different type from the bad quartos of other Shakespearean plays – an " abnormal " type , that is to say , which involves a good deal more conscious ...
... Quarto of The Shrew ' , but we should indeed ' concede that it is of rather a different type from the bad quartos of other Shakespearean plays – an " abnormal " type , that is to say , which involves a good deal more conscious ...
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