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 20
... thought of it as a kind of ellipsis- ' curbes of ... ease ' - although to say this may be devil's advocacy ) . Duthie might have added that the word ' humor ' ( applied by Petruchio in The Shrew to Kate's shrewishness ) is inappropriate ...
... thought of it as a kind of ellipsis- ' curbes of ... ease ' - although to say this may be devil's advocacy ) . Duthie might have added that the word ' humor ' ( applied by Petruchio in The Shrew to Kate's shrewishness ) is inappropriate ...
Page 45
... thought so highly that he put notes in the margin pointing them out lest the reader should miss any.1 Gascoigne , as part of a whole series of quibbles on his title , explained in his ' Prologue or Argument ' : ' But understand , this ...
... thought so highly that he put notes in the margin pointing them out lest the reader should miss any.1 Gascoigne , as part of a whole series of quibbles on his title , explained in his ' Prologue or Argument ' : ' But understand , this ...
Page 131
... thought a line missing after 239. It seems that Shakespeare's pen has run away with him . The context demands some such meaning as ' And even if his daughter were not fair . . . ( there would still be nothing to stop her having ...
... thought a line missing after 239. It seems that Shakespeare's pen has run away with him . The context demands some such meaning as ' And even if his daughter were not fair . . . ( there would still be nothing to stop her having ...
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