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040 _a otu
_b eng
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_b A44 1980
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090 8 _a PR 2832 .A2A44 1980
_b ROBA
100 1 _a Shakespeare, William,
_d 1564-1616.
245 0 0 _a The taming of the shrew
_c [William Shakespeare ; edited by Peter Alexander] ; literary consoltant, John Wilders.
260 _a London :
_b British Broadcasting Corporation
_c 1980.
300 _a 112 p., [4] p. of plates :
_b ill. --
490 0 _a The BBC TV Shakespeare
520 _aOne of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare's plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua". He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry Bianca, the younger daughter of rich old Baptista, are frustrated by her elder, "shrewish" sister, Katherine. There is much subsequent hilarity as Bianca's suitors make a bet with Petruchio that he cannot "tame" and marry Katherine. Despite Katherine's protestations, Petruchio goes ahead with the match, using deliberately unorthodox behaviour to confuse Katherine (including a scene where he starves her), claiming that "this is the way to kill a wife with kindness". The play culminates with a scene of Katherine's apparently spontaneous subjection to her husband's will, where she places her hand beneath her husband's foot, and tells the other wives present that "thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper". The play's gratuitous scenes of women being abused and vilified in the name of "comedy" has made many directors and critics very uncomfortable with the play, and many feminist critics have condemned contemporary productions of the play as reproducing certain 16th-century stereotypes concerning women who speak out against male authority.
653 _atheater
_acomedy
_aPetruchio
_aKatherine
700 1 _a Alexander, Peter,
_d 1893-
710 0 _a British Broadcasting Corporation.
830 4 _a The BBC TV Shakespeare (British Broadcasting Corporation)
942 _2ddc
948 _a 07/15/1992
_b 05/10/1999
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