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. |
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Contents
Preface | 6 |
The Writing of Pericles | 32 |
an essay on | 76 |
i Themes and Persons | 129 |
ii The Vision of Jupiter | 168 |
a study of | 203 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Crown of Life: Essays in Interpretation of Shakespeare's Final Plays Volume 3 of Collected works, George Wilson Knight Volume 3 of G. Wilson Knight Collected Works Volume 3 of Works, George Wilson Knight |
| Author | G. Wilson Knight |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0415290724, 9780415290722 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / Reference Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
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