CRITICISM

Andreson-Thom, Martha. “Shrew-taming and Other Rituals of Aggression: Baiting and Bonding on the Stage and in the Wild.” Women's Studies 9 (1982): 121-43.

Discusses reconciling The Taming of the Shrew with modern feminist ideology, and the context in which the play was written.

Bamber, Linda. “Sexism and the Battle of Sexes in The Taming of the Shrew.” In “The Taming of the Shrew”: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography, pp. 163-8. Edited by Robert B. Heilman. New York: Signet Classic, 1998.

Argues that The Taming of the Shrewis a sexist play which differs from Shakespeare's other works.

Bean, John C. “Comic Structure and the Humanizing of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.” In The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, pp. 65-78. Edited by Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene, and Carol Thomas Neely. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980.

Argues that The Taming of the Shrewshifts from farce to romantic comedy, and that “Kate, in discovering love through the discovery of her own identity, becomes something more than the fabliau stereotype of the shrew turned household drudge.”

Brown, Carolyn E. “Katherine of The Taming of the Shrew: ‘A Second Grissel’.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 37, No. 3 (Fall 1995): 285-313.

Asserts that The Taming of the Shrewdiffers from traditional medieval and Renaissance shrew tales because it contains aspects of the “Patient Griselda” tale. Brown states that “Shakespeare … allows for the reading that Katherine has been misjudged and is more similar to a Griselda than a shrew figure.”

Daniell, David. “The Good Marriage of Katherine and Petruchio.” Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production 37 (1984): 23-31.

Studies theatrical elements of the play to explain how Petruchio and Katherine arrive at mutual understanding.

Dolan, Frances E. “The Taming of the Shrew”: Texts and Contexts, pp. 1-38. Edited by Frances E. Dolan. New York: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Provides critical interpretations of the play, focusing on the following themes: “Alternative Endings,” “Marriage,” “The Household: Authority and Violence,” and “Shrews, Taming, and Untamed Shrews.”

Hodgdon, Barbara. “Katherina Bound; or, Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life.” PMLA 107, No. 3 (May 1992): 538-53.

Examines interpretations of the play in light of changing cultural beliefs about sexuality and feminism.

Jackson, MacDonald P. “Petruchio's Barber's Shop: The Taming of the Shrew, IV.III.91.” English Language Notes XXXVI, No. 1 (September 1998): 15-9.

Considers explanations for the meaning of the word “censer” in a speech by Petruchio in the fourth act.

Perret, Marion D. “Of Sex and the Shrew.” Ariel 13, No. 1 (January 1982): 3-20.

Examines the significance of references to sex in The Taming of the Shrew.

Roberts, Jeanne Addison. “Horses and Hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Quarterly 34, No. 2 (Summer 1983): 159-71.

Notes the play's Ovidian characteristics and examines aspects of romantic comedy.

Shaheen, Naseeb. “A Young Scholar from Rheims.” English Language Notes XXX, No. 3 (March 1993): 7-13.

Discusses the implications of Cambio's education at Rheims.