The Taming of the Shrew (Vol. 87) - Margaret Maurer (essay date 2001)
Margaret Maurer (essay date 2001)
SOURCE: Maurer, Margaret. “Constering Bianca: The Taming of the Shrew and The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed.” In Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, edited by John Pitcher, pp. 186-206. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.
[In the following essay, Maurer explores emendations in Shakespeare's play that substantially alter the characterization of Bianca, resulting in a less complex character than the playwright originally intended.]
Ovidius Naso was the man. And why indeed “Naso,” but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing: so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider.
—Love's Labor's Lost, 4.2.123-27
The early seventeenth-century sequel to Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew is the return, not of the shrew,...
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