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The Taming of the Shrew
: Selected Bibliography
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Berry, Ralph.
"The Rules of the Game."
1972.
Topic:
The relationship between Katherine and Petruchio as a mutually understood game.
Grade:
B-
Brooks, Charles.
"Shakespeare's Romantic Shrews."
1960.
Topic:
Katherine's transformation from willful shrew to a spirited wife.
Grade:
B
Crocker, Holly A.
"Affective Resistance: Performing Passivity and Playing a-Part in 'The Taming of the Shrew'."
2003.
Topic:
Wrong ideas about women.
Grade:
D-
Daniell, David.
"The Good Marriage of Katherine and Petruchio."
1984.
Topic:
Theatricality as the key to understanding the relationship between Katherine and Petruchio.
Grade:
C
Heilman, Robert B.
"The
Taming
Untamed, or, The Return of the Shrew."
1966.
Topic:
The play as farce.
Grade:
B
Hibbard, George R.
"
The Taming of the Shrew
: A Social Comedy."
1964.
Topic:
How the play "comes out in favour of the match based on real knowledge and experience."
Grade:
A
Jayne, Sears.
"The Dreaming of the Shrew."
1966.
Topic:
How and why to produce the play as Sly's dream.
Grade:
C
Kahn, Coppélia.
"Coming of Age: Marriage and Manhood in
Romeo and Juliet
and
The Taming of the Shrew
."
1981.
Topic:
Shakespeare's wise insights into the interdependency of men and women.
Grade:
A
Lanier, Douglas.
"Julie Taymor."
2008.
Topic:
Julie Taymor's directorial vision.
Grade:
A
Novy, Marianne L.
"Patriarchy and Play in
The Taming of the Shrew
."
1984.
Topic:
Kate's transformation from Petruchio's antagonist to his partner.
Grade:
B+
Seronsy, Cecil C.
"'Supposes' as the Unifying Theme in
The Taming of the Shrew
."
1963.
Topic:
Shakespeare's transformation of a plot device into an animating theme.
Grade:
A
Saccio, Peter.
"Shrewd and Kindly Farce."
1984
Topic:
Response to Robert Heilman's analysis of the play as a farce.
Grade:
C
Soule, Lesley Wade.
"Tumbling Tricks: Presentational Structure and 'The Taming of the Shrew'."
2004
Topic:
The Taming of the Shrew
as sketch comedy.
Grade:
C
Tillyard, E.M.W.
"
The Taming of the Shrew
."
1965.
Topics:
The relationship between the two plots. The psychological methods of Petruchio's taming of Katherine. The characters of Tranio and Biondello.
Grade:
B
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