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 60
... verse sounds not much better than jog - trot , and that the line - endings ' Lombardy ' , ' Italy ' , ' company ... verse but as soon as he has to play the part of Vincentio speaks to Baptista in verse that limps : and , if you please to ...
... verse sounds not much better than jog - trot , and that the line - endings ' Lombardy ' , ' Italy ' , ' company ... verse but as soon as he has to play the part of Vincentio speaks to Baptista in verse that limps : and , if you please to ...
Page 62
... verse , or may not . The opposite process seems to occur in 2.1.74 ff . , where Petruchio's ' O pardon me , Signor ... verse for dif- ferent parts of the play . Sly , for example , normally speaks prose , of the most colloquial kind ...
... verse , or may not . The opposite process seems to occur in 2.1.74 ff . , where Petruchio's ' O pardon me , Signor ... verse for dif- ferent parts of the play . Sly , for example , normally speaks prose , of the most colloquial kind ...
Page 63
William Shakespeare Harold James Oliver. verse , but the best accounts of him are by speakers of prose.1 ( One exception is Gremio's description of the wedding - but that involves Kate too . ) Presumably the verse gives him a certain ...
William Shakespeare Harold James Oliver. verse , but the best accounts of him are by speakers of prose.1 ( One exception is Gremio's description of the wedding - but that involves Kate too . ) Presumably the verse gives him a certain ...
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