The Folktale Origin of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i>

Brunvand, Jan Harold

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“…A Shrew does not keep the names of Grumio and Tranio, the servant-beating-servant theme, and the banquet. It seems that, if we accept the revision theory, Shakespeare wrote a version following the folk tradition (the three sisters' theme), 63 Plautus, and Ariosto; then, revising the play, he went back to Ariosto, deciding to keep only two sisters as in I suppositi, changing the setting from Athens to Padua, and changing the names of all the characters, except Kate, Grumio, and Tranio. It is impossible to say if he decided to drop Christopher Sly's interludes and the epilogue, or if the dropping was due to new theatrical demands in the 1600s.…”

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The background of The Shrew: Texts and intertexts

Cioni

2023

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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The essay focuses on the relationship between William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and the anonymous 1594 quarto The Taming of a Shrew, arguing that A Shrew has its own theatrical and narrative autonomy and that it could reflect a Shakespearean original different from that transmitted through the First Folio. It also examines the dramatic intertext of the Induction, possible sources that influenced both The Shrew and A Shrew, and its theatrical intertexts. The intertexts of The Shrew/ A Shrew appear to be a sort of palimpsest of quotations, revisions, and translations, suggesting the possibility of a third, ‘uncut’ version of Shakespeare's play.

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The background of The Shrew: Texts and intertexts

Cioni

2023

Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

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“…However, for readers, theatregoers and performers the various shrew stories were both repetitions and culturally specific. 27 Much more significant than the ultimate source is the anonymous mid-sixteenthcentury third-person ballads, such as A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife, which, for all that it heavily foregrounds its several performative aspects, is also very cruel and insistent on the emergence of a new obedient, not companionate, serving identity. The Merry Jest gives a version of the tale in which a ballad apparently designed to reassure men that by animalising women's "mischievous pageants" [l. 43] they can control them.…”

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Educating Shrews: Taming of the Shrew, women’s education, shrew stories

Wiseman

2023

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How might we situate The Taming of the Shrew alongside other roughly contemporary writing exploring similar issues? Responding to this question, what follows investigates two topics which feature in The Taming of the Shrew and elsewhere: shrew stories and the role of women in education. It sets side by side the scenes of education in the play and women's deep involvement in the education of girls in early modern England, to argue that from distinct perspectives Shrew and shrew stories and prescriptive literature address the place of men and women in the education of girls to become marriageable subjects capable of mediating the imperatives of love and obedience to sustain a companionate marriage and household. It explores the possibility that putting together the two helps us to see more clearly that we see this drama of the making of a companionate union played out, repeatedly, on the Renaissance stage. Having considered education, gender and obedience in several genres it returns to Shrew more specifically to discuss what this comparison helps us see about how the drama of education for marriage is played out in this text. 2In taking as its starting place that most tendentious of plays, The Taming of the Shrew, this essay aims to explore the possibility of deepening engagement with its educational contexts. The number of early modern versions of the idea of the tamed shrew show it was understood as 'good to think with', and decades of critical and directorial reflection on Shakespeare's text (by Frances E. Dolan, M.J.Kidnie and in this volume by Dympna Callaghan amongst others) demonstrate that now, as in early modern England, shrew stories prompt reflection on both the nature of theatrical representation and gender relations. 1 What more can Taming of the Shrew tell us about specifically the area Educating Shrews: Taming of the Shrew, women's education, shrew stories Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 41 | 2023 Educating Shrews: Taming of the Shrew, women's education, shrew stories Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 41 | 2023

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“…The significance of what Sherni does is to return to the roots of the shrew tale, which allegedly originates in India and has travelled to the west (Brunvand 1966). Jan Brunvand discusses the folktale Type 901, which may have originated in India, in which an animal is subjected to severe punishment in order to frighten the wife.…”

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Twisted Skeins of Women and Wilderness

Singh¹,

Tholia²

2022

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Anthropogenic development has reduced the concept of stability to an imaginary state. Thomas Nail prefers the term “Kinocene” to Anthropocene or Capitalocene to describe modern times since it suggests a reconfiguration of human-nonhuman relations. This is where the interpretation of classic tales through contemporary lenses becomes relevant concerning re-imagining them in the context of marginalized voices. An example of this is the Bollywood film Sherni, which finds its tropes in the Shrew tales, famously used by Shakespeare. This article is divided into three sections, followed by a conclusion. The first section introduces Thomas Nail’s concept of border, allowing the analysis to focus on extensive and intensive movements. The former pertains to the observation of external manifestations of hegemonical exercise perpetuated within India as a legacy of colonialism. Following the discussion of the colonial legacy, examining the intensive movement illustrates how Shakespeare’s Shrew tropes emerge as the film expresses its resistance to patriarchy and creates empathy for the nonhuman actor.

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The Folktale Origin of The Taming of the Shrew

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The background of The Shrew: Texts and intertexts

The background of The Shrew: Texts and intertexts

Educating Shrews: Taming of the Shrew, women’s education, shrew stories

Twisted Skeins of Women and Wilderness

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