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Synopsis
More than 60 minutes of audio on the CD including 20 classic scenes and excerpts from famous performances past and present
The Sourcebooks Shakespeare brings THE TAMING OF THE SHREW to life in a revolutionary new book and audio CD format
In the Book:
Photographs from notable productions including:
- Allison Janney as Katherine in the 1999 production at The Public Theater in New York City
- Jonathan Pryce as Christopher Sly in the Royal Shakespeare Company 1978 production
- Tracey Ullman as Katherina and Helen Hunt as Bianca in the 1989-1990 production at The Public Theater
- Timothy Dalton as Petruchio and Vanessa Redgrave as Katherina in the 1986 production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Hear 20 great scenes on audio CD:
Memorable performances by Sian Phillips and Peter O'Toole as Katharina and Petruchio (1962), Fredi Olster and Marc Singer from William Ball's American Conservatory Theatre production (1976), and Frances Barber and Roger Allam (2003) from The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi
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About the Author
Text Editor: Antonia Forster is Professor of English at the University of Akron. Her Index to Book Reviews in England 1749-1774 was awarded the 1992 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy, and the second volume to take the Index to 1800 was published by the British Library in 1997. Her Vol. 1 (1770-1799) of The English Novel 1770-1829: a Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (with James Raven) was published by Oxford University Press in 2000. She has published articles in such journals as The Age of Johnson, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Studies in Newspaper and Periodical History, and has been awarded fellowships for research in the Folger, Newberry, Houghton, Beinecke and British Libraries. She is also preparing an edition of the correspondence of Ralph Griffiths, founding editor of the Monthly Review.
Advisory Editors:
David Bevington is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities at the University of Chicago. A renowned text scholar, he has edited several Shakespeare editions including the Bantam Shakespeare in individual paperback volumes, The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Troilus and Cressida. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance Drama and Medieval Drama.
Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame. One of the central figures in performance-oriented Shakespeare criticism, he has also edited many Shakespeare plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Oxford Shakespeare series.
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- PublisherSourcebooks MediaFusion
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1402208316
- ISBN 13 9781402208317
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages336
- EditorAntonia Forster, David Bevington, Peter Holland
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