The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nCONTENTS\nILLUSTRATIONS\nNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS\nSERIES PREFACE\nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\nIntroduction Heather C. Easterling and Jennifer Flaherty\n	Notes\nPART ONE Taming Shrews: Negotiating Early Modern Gender\n	1 Shakespeare’s New Shrew\n		Folk shrews\n		Stage shrews\n		A Shrew\n		The new shrew\n		The Tamer Tamed\n		Conclusion\n		Notes\n	2 Homeschooling the Girl Stomach\n		Pedagogies of the humanist banquet\n		Banqueting in The Taming of the Shrew\n		The burden of the table\n		Notes\n	3 The Taming of the Shrew Afterlives and Oeconomics\n		Notes\nPART TWO Staging Modern Shrews: The Politics of Performance\n	4 Sometimes Crossing a Line The Taming of the Shrew in Chicago and Stratford-upon-Avon\n		Notes\n	5 The Taming of the Shrew in Soviet Russia Ideological Dangers of Structural Instability\n		‘A play so monstrously crude in its lesson’: Christopher Sly in the 1920s\n		‘Our greatest ally’: Shrew and socialist realism\n		Travelling actors against ideological Shakespeare\n		In lieu of conclusion\n		Notes\n	6 Dissident Feminism at the End of the Franco Dictatorship The New Taming of the Shrew (1975)\n		Cultural shifts at the end of the regime\n		The New Taming of the Shrew (1975)\n		Feminist metatheatrics\n		Back to the future: Katherina’s new agenda\n		Contextualizing gender debates in the last days of the regime\n		Shakespeare’s authority and critical anxiety\n		Notes\n	7 The Turn of the Shrew Cross-Gender Casting in the Twenty-First Century\n		The Shrew and conceptual casting: Shakespeare’s Globe (2003)\n		The Shrew and translocation: the RSC (2019)\n		Conclusions\n		Notes\n	8 ‘My Tongue Will Tell the  Anger of my Heart’ Staging and Challenging Irish Womanhood at the Globe (2016)\n		Remembering Shakespeare, remembering 1916\n		‘The nation promised equality’: activism, performance and commemoration in 2016\n		The Globe and the performance of Irishness on the English stage\n		The Globe and the performance of (Irish) feminism\n		Conclusion: ‘My hand is open here for us’\n		Notes\nPART THREE Reclaiming the Shrew: Contemporary Transformations\n	9 Telling the Anger of Her Heart (M)aligning the Stars in the Taylor and Zeffirelli Taming of the Shrew Films\n		‘Tye her tongue up and pare down her nails’:8 Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks\n		‘I have work in hand’:21 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton\n		‘Her silence flouts me and I’ll be revenged’:43 Conclusion\n		Notes\n	10 ‘The Right Foundation’ Remaking Marriage in a Black Adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew\n		Notes\n	11 Taming the Internet Katherina, Bianca, and Digital Girlhood\n		Notes\n	12 ‘Kate of My Consolation’ Mary Cowden Clarke and Anne Tyler Revisit The Taming of the Shrew\n		Notes\nBIBLIOGRAPHY OF PARATEXTS, PRODUCTIONS AND ADAPTATIONS\nINDEX