Three Shrew Plays: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; with The Anonymous The Taming of a Shrew, and Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed

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This annotated collection of three early modern English plays on the provocative theme of domestic domination allows readers to explore the fascinating relationship between Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrewa play unusual among Shakespeare's in that it inspired theatrical responses from the outsetand two remarkable plays it was influenced by or influenced: the anonymous The Taming of a Shrew and Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed.

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This excellent volume brings together for the first time three plays that need to be read together as each casts light on the other two. It will be invaluable to students and teachers. --David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History, The University of York
A wonderful edition for teachers and scholars both. I will happily order it for my classes in Shakespeare and in Renaissance English literature. The Shrew is a rich center for cultural debate about marriage, gender, and sexuality--and also, as these three play scripts amply show, about the Renaissance theatre itself as a site for exploring competing views and systems of value. The texts are well annotated and handsomely presented for modern readers. --Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis
An idea whose time has come. How wonderful to have all three shrew texts in one convenient volume. The notes and text are modernized and clear. Bravo! --Virginia M. Vaughan, Clark University

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Barry Gaines is Professor of English, The University of New Mexico. Margaret Maurer is William Henry Crawshaw Professor of Literature, Colgate University.