{"product_id":"the-taming-of-the-shrew-by-william-shakespeare-9781903436936","title":"The Taming of The Shrew","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Taming of the Shrew\u003c\/em\u003e is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarised debate over the meaning and worth of the play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception. It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent and so includes the full text of \u003cem\u003eThe Taming of A Shrew\u003c\/em\u003e in an appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the Introduction and Commentary focus on the critical and theatrical debate surrounding the play, the original and comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew, more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarbara Hodgdon is a distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas and questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384057151724,"sku":"9781903436936","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19381013482865.jpg?v=1773400322","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-taming-of-the-shrew-by-william-shakespeare-9781903436936","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}