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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... sister on his own initiative to fill out the subplot.1 In doing this , he had the aid , probably , of folk - tales ... sister , Bianca , and if the third sister never was in any version of the play except A Shrew - then most of the ...
... sister on his own initiative to fill out the subplot.1 In doing this , he had the aid , probably , of folk - tales ... sister , Bianca , and if the third sister never was in any version of the play except A Shrew - then most of the ...
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... sister ? Or was there a full Sly framework in the earlier form of The Shrew that A Shrew ' reported ' , and did ... Sisters ' , The Times Literary Supplement , 8 July 1965 ; J. C. Maxwell , ' The Shrew and A Shrew : The Suitors and the ...
... sister ? Or was there a full Sly framework in the earlier form of The Shrew that A Shrew ' reported ' , and did ... Sisters ' , The Times Literary Supplement , 8 July 1965 ; J. C. Maxwell , ' The Shrew and A Shrew : The Suitors and the ...
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... sister , of all the men alive I never yet beheld that special face Which I could fancy more than any other . KATHERINA Minion , thou liest . Is't not Hortensio ? BIANCA If you affect him , sister , here I swear I'll plead for you myself ...
... sister , of all the men alive I never yet beheld that special face Which I could fancy more than any other . KATHERINA Minion , thou liest . Is't not Hortensio ? BIANCA If you affect him , sister , here I swear I'll plead for you myself ...
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