The Taming of a Shrew
The 1594 Quarto
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: Stephen Roy Miller, King's College London
- Date Published: December 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087964
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This is a new edition of an anonymous play that appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that someone rewrote Shakespeare's more complicated version, making it shorter, simpler and different in some ways. The main difference between the two plays concerns the framing story of Christopher Sly, the drunk, who disappears early on in Shakespeare's version, but who has a much larger role in A Shrew. This edition provides a modernized text and extensive commentary.
Read more- Provides the complete text of A Shrew rather than the small selections usually found in editions of Shakespeare's The Shrew
- Provides a thorough comparison of the two versions, including fresh evidence that A Shrew is an altered version of Shakespeare's play
- Offers the fullest illustrated discussion so far of the influence of A Shrew on stage productions of Shakespeare's version
Reviews & endorsements
"Miller punctuates more heavily in his edition, but only enough to keep his modern readers aware of what is going on and to whom the action refers. Miller's efforts...give us immediate and relable access to the text and on the text of Shakespeare's Shrew." Shakespeare Quarterly
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087964
- length: 172 pages
- dimensions: 210 x 150 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
List of characters
The play
4 appendices [including Appendix 1. Scene-by-scene comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew.
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