Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Holderness Reading Shrews in Pamphlets and Plays; A.Bayman & G.Southcombe Shrews, Marriage and Murder; S.Clark Engendering Shrews, Mediaeval to Early Modern; H.S.Crocker 'He speaks very shrewishly': Apprentice-training and The Taming of the Shrew; R.Madelaine The Shrew as Editor/Editing Shrews; L.S.Marcus Putting the Silent Woman back into the Shakespearean Shrew; M.Maurer and B.Gaines Unknown Shrews: Three Transformations of The/A Shrew; H.J.Helmers 'Ye sid he taken my Counsel sir': Restoration Satire and Theatrical Authority; C.Conaway 'Darkenes was before light': Hierarchy and Duality in The Taming of A Shrew; G.Holderness The Gendered Stomach in The Taming of the Shrew; J.Purnis The Tamer Tamed, or None Shall Have Prizes: 'Equality' in Shakespeare's England; D.Wootton Afterword; A.Thompson Index