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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... stage direction omits Hortensio , who must enter here.1 The stage direction at ll . 1387-8 ( 3.2.0.1-2 ) omits Lucentio - who does not speak until l . 137 of that scene ; Grumio is omitted from the entrance at l . 1565 ( 3.2.182.2-3 ) ...
... stage direction omits Hortensio , who must enter here.1 The stage direction at ll . 1387-8 ( 3.2.0.1-2 ) omits Lucentio - who does not speak until l . 137 of that scene ; Grumio is omitted from the entrance at l . 1565 ( 3.2.182.2-3 ) ...
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... stage direction ' for a reader , to avoid confusion when the old man is addressed as a woman ( the audience would see what was happening ) . One curious feature of the stage directions of A Shrew is that there is no indication that any ...
... stage direction ' for a reader , to avoid confusion when the old man is addressed as a woman ( the audience would see what was happening ) . One curious feature of the stage directions of A Shrew is that there is no indication that any ...
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... stage throughout , represents some inter- mediate , experimental version that tried to get over the problem of the ... stage altogether.1 One caveat may be entered : it has perhaps been too readily assumed that because the Lord remains ...
... stage throughout , represents some inter- mediate , experimental version that tried to get over the problem of the ... stage altogether.1 One caveat may be entered : it has perhaps been too readily assumed that because the Lord remains ...
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