Jennifer Flaherty

Heather C. Easterling

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play

Mark Thornton Burnett

Deborah Uman

"The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Sexual bullying. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the issues faced by young adults and confronted in Liberating Shakespeare. Exploring how adaptations of Shakespeare's plays can be used to empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma and resistance, this collection showcases a wide variety of approaches to understanding, adapting and teaching Shakespeare. In the past 25 years, the number of Shakespeare adaptations targeting adolescent audiences has grown significantly. This book explores YA novels based on Shakespeare's plays, teen films such as 10 Things I Hate about You and Romeo + Juliet, video games such as Elsinore and the Life is Strange series, and many other adaptations that have invited young audiences to see themselves in Shakespeare's characters. It also looks at more recent digital adaptations, produced by and for young people, which reimagine Shakespeare's plays as first-person video diaries. These creative works use Shakespeare to address some of the most pressing questions in contemporary culture - exploring themes of violence, race relations and intersectionality. The chapters in this collection consider whether the representations of characters and situations in YA Shakespeare can function as empowering models for students and how these works might be used as companion texts within educational settings. It argues that YA Shakespeare represents the diverse concerns of today's youth and should be taken seriously as art that speaks to the complexities of a broken world and offers moments of hope for an uncertain future"--

Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences

Liberating Shakespeare

Ann Thompson

Lena Cowen Orlin

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 Gender -- 1 -- Shakespeare's New Shrew -- Erin 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 Performance -- 4 -- Sometimes Crossing a Line: The Taming of the Shrew in Chicago and Stratford-upon-Avon -- David Bevington (University of Chicago, USA) -- 5 -- The Taming of the Shrew in Soviet Russia: Ideological Dangers of Structural Instability -- Natalia Khomenko (York University, Toronto, Canada) -- 6 -- Dissident Feminism at the End of the Franco Dictatorship: The New Taming of the Shrew (1975) -- Juan F. Cerd ̀(University of Murcia, Spain) -- 7 -- The Turn of the Shrew : Cross-Gender Casting in the Twenty-First Century -- Peter 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 Transformations -- 9 -- 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 Shrew -- Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA) -- 11 -- Taming the Internet: Katherina, Bianca, and Digital Girlhood -- Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA) -- 12 -- 'Kate of My Consolation': Mary Cowden Clarke and Anne Tyler Revisit The Taming of the Shrew -- Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University, USA).

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