Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction Heather C. Easterling, (Gonzaga University, USA) and Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA)

Part I. Taming Shrews: Negotiating Early Modern Gender

1 Shakespeare’s New Shrew

Erin E. Kelly (University of Victoria, Canada)

2 Home-Schooling the Girl Stomach

David Goldstein (York University, Canada)

3 The Taming of the Shrew: Afterlives and Oeconomics

Romola Nuttall (King's College London, UK)


Part II. Staging Modern Shrews: The Politics of Performance

4 Sometimes Crossing a Line: The Taming of the Shrew in Chicago and Stratford-upon-Avon

David Bevington (University of Chicago, USA)

5 The Taming of the Shrew in Soviet Russia: Ideological Dangers of Structural Instability

Natalia Khomenko (York University, Toronto, Canada)

6 Dissident Feminism at the End of the Franco Dictatorship: The New Taming of the Shrew (1975)

Juan F. Cerdá (University of Murcia, Spain)


7 The Turn of the Shrew: Cross-Gender Casting in the Twenty-First Century

Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK)

8 ‘My tongue will tell the anger of my heart’: Staging and Challenging Irish Womanhood at the Globe (2016)

Emer McHugh, (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)


Part III. Reclaiming the Shrew: Contemporary Transformations

9 Telling the Anger of Her Heart: (M)aligning the Stars in Taylor and Zeffirelli Taming of the Shrew Films

Milla Cozart Riggio ( Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA)

10 ‘The Right Foundation’: Remaking Marriage in a Black Adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew

Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)

11 Taming the Internet: Katherina, Bianca, and Digital Girlhood

Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA)

12 ‘Kate of My Consolation’: Mary Cowden Clarke and Anne Tyler Revisit The Taming of the Shrew

Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University, USA)



Bibliography of Para-Texts, Productions, and Adaptations

Index

Promotional Information

A collection of essays on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, showcasing the current ideas and debates surrounding the play and its contentious afterlife in the context of contemporary culture.

About the Author

Jennifer Flaherty is Associate Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Georgia College, USA, and her research emphasizes adaptation theory and global Shakespeare.

Heather C. Easterling is Professor of English at Gonzaga University, USA, where she is a specialist in Renaissance Studies with research focused on early modern English drama and its urban context of 16th and 17th-century London.