Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; M. Wynne-Davies.- MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.- Against the Sink-a-Pace: Sexual and Family Politics in Much Ado About Nothing; H. Berger Jr..- Half a Dozen Dangerous Words; S.P. Cerasano.- Much Ado About Nothing: The Unsociable Comedy; B. Everett.- Much Ado About Nothing: A Kind of Merry War; P. Gay.- Antitheatrically Staged: The Workings of Ideology in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing; J. E. Howard.- THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.- The Turn of The Shrew; J.Fineman.- Renaissance Family Politics and Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; K.Newman.- Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly Member; L.E.Boose.- Household Kates: Domesticating Commodities in The Taming of the Shrew; N.Korda.- A Shrew For the Times; D.E. Henderson.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.