{"product_id":"the-taming-of-the-shrew-9781903436936","title":"The Taming of the Shrew","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarised debate over the meaning and worth of the play. This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception. It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent and so includes the full text of The Taming of A Shrew in an appendix. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the Introduction and Commentary focus on the critical and theatrical debate surrounding the play, the original and comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew, more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case. Barbara Hodgdon is a distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas and questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Hodgdon is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations\u003c\/i\u003e, the Arden 3 Online Performance Project, \u003ci\u003e The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History\u003c\/i\u003e, and two books exploring Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHenry IV, Parts One and Two\u003c\/i\u003e as texts and in performance.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681617809682,"sku":"9781903436936","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d7aab8e-bba1-4bd4-a023-26afaacc3dc7.jpg?v=1748696865","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-taming-of-the-shrew-9781903436936","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}