A Pleasant Conceited Historie, Called the Taming of a Shrew (Shakespearean Originals - First Editions) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William; Holderness, Graham; Loughrey, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745011039 ISBN 13: 9780745011035

Publisher: Pearson Professional Education, 1992

Synopsis

Published in 1594, under the title "The Taming of a Shrew", this play has always been regarded as an earlier version by another dramatist, or as a corrupt "memorial reconstruction" of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew". Yet the version accepted as Shakespeare's was not published until the First Folio of 1623. The text of "A Shrew ..." differs from that of "The Shrew ...", containing for example, a complete theatrical "framing" device in the form of the Lord's practical joke on Christopher Sly, whereas the "Shakespearean" text drops Sly and the framing device early in the play. From the beginning of this century the "non-Shakespearean" text has been used in theatrical practice to complete the authorized but insufficient "Shakespearean" play. This new edition makes "The Taming of a Shrew" available in full, not as a "source" or "analogue" or "memorial reconstruction of a Shakespearean original", but in its own right as an inventive and popular Elizabethan play.

About this title

About the Author

Graham Holderness is Professor of Humanities at Hatfield Polytechnic. He is the author of numerous critical studies in Renaissance and modern literature and theatre. Bryan Loughrey is Research Co-ordinator at Roehampton Institute, London. He has published and edited widely in the field of Renaissance studies and in general literature and criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Professional Education
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0745011039
• ISBN 13: 9780745011035
• Binding: Hardcover