The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final PlaysThis 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
an essay on | 76 |
i Themes and Persons | 129 |
ii The Vision of Jupiter | 168 |
a study of | 203 |
Henry VIII and the Poetry of Conversion | 256 |
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