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 12
... original function as a rival , in his own name , to Gremio for the hand of Bianca has become meaningless ; one won- ders whether lines of dialogue may not have been written for him and later expunged . In 4.2 , when the suspicions of ...
... original function as a rival , in his own name , to Gremio for the hand of Bianca has become meaningless ; one won- ders whether lines of dialogue may not have been written for him and later expunged . In 4.2 , when the suspicions of ...
Page 28
... original composition . Most important , the doubts of Alexander , Hosley , and J. C. Maxwell about theories that required Shakespeare to have gone back to Gascoigne's Supposes for the sub- plot after the ' Ur - Shrew ' had altered it ...
... original composition . Most important , the doubts of Alexander , Hosley , and J. C. Maxwell about theories that required Shakespeare to have gone back to Gascoigne's Supposes for the sub- plot after the ' Ur - Shrew ' had altered it ...
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... original Pem- broke's Men , bankrupt , had to break up ; and it can hardly be coinci- dental that four plays bearing their name on the title - page were published in the period July 1593-1595 . A fifth , The First Part of the Contention ...
... original Pem- broke's Men , bankrupt , had to break up ; and it can hardly be coinci- dental that four plays bearing their name on the title - page were published in the period July 1593-1595 . A fifth , The First Part of the Contention ...
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