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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Page 67
... mind to marry him , to try if I can't tame him ' , in spite of an apparent difference , is only too like Lacy's ' I have a good mind to marry him to try if he can tame me ' ; and the shrew is again ' Margaret ' ( ' Peg ' ) , though ...
... mind to marry him , to try if I can't tame him ' , in spite of an apparent difference , is only too like Lacy's ' I have a good mind to marry him to try if he can tame me ' ; and the shrew is again ' Margaret ' ( ' Peg ' ) , though ...
Page 118
... mind the play . SLY Yes , by Saint Anne , do I. A good matter , surely ; comes there any more of it ? PAGE ( as Lady ) My lord , ' tis but begun . SLY ' Tis a very excellent piece of work , madam lady : would ' twere done ! Enter ...
... mind the play . SLY Yes , by Saint Anne , do I. A good matter , surely ; comes there any more of it ? PAGE ( as Lady ) My lord , ' tis but begun . SLY ' Tis a very excellent piece of work , madam lady : would ' twere done ! Enter ...
Page 211
... mind Katherine also implies that his mind changes as often as the moon traditionally changed ( Tilley MIIII ) and that he is insane ( the very word ' lunatic ' derives from the old belief that the moon caused madness ) . 23 go thy ways ...
... mind Katherine also implies that his mind changes as often as the moon traditionally changed ( Tilley MIIII ) and that he is insane ( the very word ' lunatic ' derives from the old belief that the moon caused madness ) . 23 go thy ways ...
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