An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations.

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ANNA KAMARALLI is a Teaching Fellow on the Theatre programme in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her articles have appeared in Shakespeare Survey and Shakespeare Bulletin.

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Book Title: Shakespeare and the Shrew
Book Subtitle: Performing the Defiant Female Voice
Authors: Anna Kamaralli
Series Title: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291516
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34809-7Published: 16 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34527-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29151-6Published: 16 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2731-3204
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 250
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Theatre History, Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

‘Shrewd tempters with their tongues’ — Shrews in the Histories

‘My Tongue Will Tell the Anger of My Heart’ — Comic Shrews

‘Well she can persuade’ — Shrews Post-Comedy

Conclusion: ‘Let her speak too’

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