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SHAKSPER 1992: SHREW: An Answer and a Question
From: Hardy M. Cook (hmcook@boe00.minc.umd.edu) Date: 11/18/92
Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 3, No. 325. Wednesday, 18 November 1992. (1) From: S. W. Reid <SWR1000@phx.cam.ac.uk> Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 92 14:25:51 GMT Subj: Re: SHK 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) (2) From: Phyllis Rackin <prackin@sas.upenn.edu> Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 92 12:33:05 EST Subj: Re: SHK 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) (1)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: S. W. Reid <SWR1000@phx.cam.ac.uk> Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 92 14:25:51 GMT Subject: 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) Comment: Re: SHK 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) Those interested in the Streep/Julia Shrew might be able to obtain a copy from Audio-Visual Services, Kent State University Libraries, Kent State Univ., Kent, OHio 44242, USA. I know they had the tape several have mentioned, and I believe it's available through their rental program. S. W. Reid Clare Hall, Univ. Cambridge SWR1000@phoenix.Cambridge.AC.UK (2)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Phyllis Rackin <prackin@sas.upenn.edu> Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 92 12:33:05 EST Subject: 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) Comment: Re: SHK 3.0322 Re: Another SHREW Variation (con't) Does it seem to other people that this play has received a remarkable number of productions in recent years? Each semester in my introductory Shakespeare class I let the students vote on what plays we'll read, and they've chosen Shrew almost every time in recent years, but not very often before that. And if there have been a lot of Shrews, is that a good thing or a bad? I saw a particularly depressing one this summer at Stratford-upon-Avon, which was very pc on the question of the class hierarchy but did not interrogate the gender hierarchy at all: Kate's taming was represented as a joyous enlightenment for her, and the frame story was rewritten to include another troubled marriage (among characters represented as modern) in order to universalize the patriarchal moral.
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