The Taming of the ShrewHal Leonard Corporation, 2000 - 192 pages (Applause Books). If there has ever been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be THE APPLAUSE FOLIO TEXTS. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. Prepared and annotated by Neil Freeman, Head, Graduate Directing Program, University of British Columbia. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT OF THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | 4 |
Dramatis Personae | 11 |
THE Taming of the Shrew | 1 |
THE UNEASY RELATIONSHIP OF FOLIO QUARTOS AND MODERN TEXTS | 97 |
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