Taming Of The Shrew
- September 29th, 2008
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Recently read: Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare.
This is one of my least favorite Shakespeare plays. Besides the misogynistic ending it is just not that interesting. I’d be curious about current criticism, however, to see what scholars are doing with it right now.
I read this play via Daily Lit.
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I saw this in Philly by the Lantern Theatre Company, it was hysterical and the best production of it I have seen to date. Perhaps a reading doesn’t do it justice. Maybe you have to be a woman to understand the constrictions that surrounded them and how ridiculous they were. I thought that he actually did women a service by pointing that out. As far as the ending, the whole control issue would grate on the nerves of any of today’s women, but at the time, most good maidens would think that an obedient wife was a happy wife. Lets face it, she was a bit of a trial, it is not like she wasn’t asking for correction. Also, women tend to like the guys that take control, hence “the nice guys finish later” and all that.
I often think that we have to assume the expectations of the time period when reading some of these plays.
I agree with you that a reading doesn’t really do the play justice. Normally I would prefer to engage with Shakespeare via audio books. We spent a lot of time this semester in the World Literature seminar I took on oral literature and plays in print versus performance.