The Tamer Tamed (RSC Classics) - Softcover

Fletcher, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854597396 ISBN 13: 9781854597397

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2003

Synopsis

An irreverent sequel to the Taming of the Shrew, written in 1611 and now published alongside its production at the RSC - the first for 300 years In The Tamer Tamed Petruchio marries for a second time and is tamed in his turn by his wife Maria in a reversal of roles that has echoes of the sex-strike in Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Written twenty years after Shakespeare's original, The Tamer Tamed is also a revealing insight into changing attitudes to women and marriage in the Jacobean period. Gregory Doran's production of The Tamer Tamed - the first in the RSC's history and almost certainly the first major production in three centuries - follows his acclaimed staging of The Island Princess (also by Fletcher) in the RSC Classics season, which transferred to the West End playing though till Spring 2003

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Munro is Lecturer in English at Keele University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1854597396
• ISBN 13: 9781854597397
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128