UniversesThis volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality. |
Contents
The Evidence of Fine Tuning | 25 |
Further Evidence | 57 |
Multiple Worlds | 66 |
The Need to Explain Life | 104 |
Anthropic Explanations | 127 |
The Design Argument | 150 |
God | 165 |
Conclusions | 184 |
Notes | 205 |
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