Byron and ShakespeareThis 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
SONNETS AND SERAPHS | 24 |
A REGENCY HAMLET | 73 |
FALSTAFF AND COMEDY | 117 |
RICHARD III AND MACBETH | 151 |
TIMON AND SHYLOCK | 188 |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRAS OTHELLO | 227 |
TEMPESTS LEAR PROSPERO | 262 |
HENRY VIII | 317 |
THE GOLDEN THREAD | 333 |
THE SEPARATION CONTROVERSY | 351 |
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| Title | Byron and Shakespeare Volume 11 of Collected works, George Wilson Knight Volume 11 of Works, George Wilson Knight |
| Author | George Wilson Knight |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0415290805, 9780415290807 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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