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 10
... Scene 2 contained about a quarter of the relevant lines that he considered defective whereas 2.1 was ' hardly affected at all ' - and this whole scene 3.2 is now attributed to a different compositor , ' C ' , from the one , ' B ' , who ...
... Scene 2 contained about a quarter of the relevant lines that he considered defective whereas 2.1 was ' hardly affected at all ' - and this whole scene 3.2 is now attributed to a different compositor , ' C ' , from the one , ' B ' , who ...
Page 29
... scenes ' ; and the proposed inference is that there was originally a Sly scene in between , as there is in A Shrew . Again an alternative explanation may be given of the breaking of what has come to be known as the ' law of immediate re ...
... scenes ' ; and the proposed inference is that there was originally a Sly scene in between , as there is in A Shrew . Again an alternative explanation may be given of the breaking of what has come to be known as the ' law of immediate re ...
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... scene.1 ( Perhaps it should be added - in view of some rather wild theorizing about Sly's ' dream ' - that the actor play- ing Sly cannot conceivably play Petruchio if the Folio text is adhered to ; Sly must ' sit and marke ' , at least ...
... scene.1 ( Perhaps it should be added - in view of some rather wild theorizing about Sly's ' dream ' - that the actor play- ing Sly cannot conceivably play Petruchio if the Folio text is adhered to ; Sly must ' sit and marke ' , at least ...
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