{"product_id":"9781903436936","title":"The Taming of The Shrew : Third Series","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Taming of The Shrew\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): William Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hodgson has piqued my interest again in her spry, supple introduction to the play...Her performance history is particularly impressive: closely aligned to the breadth of critical reading, but suggesting the comedy's challenges and, even, its charms.” —\u003ci\u003ePlays International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eSardines Theatre Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781903436936\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The Arden Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40647648477390,"sku":"9781903436936","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_87021866-ad65-4023-b5e5-f20b772885a8.jpg?v=1639187042","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781903436936","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}