Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

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.

• 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 Gender1 Shakespeare’s New ShrewErin 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 Performance4 Sometimes Crossing a Line: The Taming of the Shrew in Chicago and Stratford-upon-AvonDavid Bevington (University of Chicago, USA)5 The Taming of the Shrew in Soviet Russia: Ideological Dangers of Structural InstabilityNatalia 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 CenturyPeter 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 Transformations9 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 ShrewJoyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA)11 Taming the Internet: Katherina, Bianca, and Digital GirlhoodJennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA)12 ‘Kate of My Consolation’: Mary Cowden Clarke and Anne Tyler Revisit The Taming of the ShrewSheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University, USA)Bibliography of Para-Texts, Productions, and Adaptations Index