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)
 
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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
 
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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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