CRITICISM

Andresen-Thom, Martha. “Shrew-taming and Other Rituals of Aggression: Baiting and Bonding on the Stage and in the Wild.” Women's Studies 9, no. 2 (1982): 121-43.

Discusses the reception of The Taming of the Shrew among modern students and audiences in an era of post-feminism.

Barnett, Louise K. “Ovid and The Taming of the Shrew.” Ball State University Forum 20, no. 3 (summer 1979): 16-22.

Maintains that the influence of Ovid's writings on The Taming of the Shrew has been overlooked by many critics.

Cioni, Fernando. “Shakespeare's Italian Intertexts: The Taming of the/a Shrew.” In Shakespeare and Intertextuality: The Transition of Cultures Between Italy and England in the Early Modern Period, edited by Michele Marrapodi, pp. 149-61. Rome, Italy: Bulzoni Editore, 2000.

Examines the relationship between Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the anonymous 1594 quarto titled The Taming of a Shrew, and Plautus's Mostellaria.

Cooper, Marilyn M. “Implicature, Convention, and The Taming of the Shrew.” Poetics 10 (1981): 1-14.

Explores the verbal performances of the characters in The Taming of the Shrew based on the theories of philosopher Paul Grice.

Culpepper, Jonathan. “A Cognitive Approach to Characterization: Katherina in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.” Language and Literature 9, no. 4 (November 2000): 291-316.

Analyzes the characterization of Katherina using cognitive theories of knowledge and impression formation.

Dessen, Alan C. “The Tamings of the Shrews.” In Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essays on the Early Comedies, edited by Michael J. Collins, pp. 35-49. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1997.

Contends that the version of The Taming of the Shrew that is produced today is faithful to neither the 1594 version of The Taming of a Shrew that appeared in the 1596 and 1607 quartos, nor the 1623 version from the First Folio.

Dolan, Frances E. Introduction to The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts, pp. 1-38. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Surveys a wide range of thematic possibilities in The Taming of the Shrew.

Fineman, Joel. “The Turn of the Shrew.” In William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, edited by Harold Bloom, pp. 93-113. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Discusses The Taming of the Shrew as a seemingly subversive text that, in the end, reaffirms the established order in terms of gender relations.

Gussenhoven, Frances, Sr. “Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and Chaucer's Wife of Bath: The Struggle for Marital Mastery.” In Chaucerian Shakespeare: Adaptation and Transformation, edited by E. Talbot Donaldson and Judith J. Kollmann, pp. 69-79. Detroit: Marygrove College, 1983.

Suggests that although Chaucer's Wife of Bath is often compared to Shakespeare's Katherina, she actually has more in common with Petruchio.

Kehler, Dorothea. “Echoes of the Induction in The Taming of the Shrew.” In Renaissance Papers (1986): 31-42.

Speculates on the effect of The Taming of the Shrew on the female audience members of Shakespeare's time.

Mannion, Kristina. Review of The Taming of the Shrew. Back Stage West 7, no. 32 (10 August 2000): 18.

Discusses the directors Dave Barton and David Gallo's 2000 Rude Guerrilla Theater Company's staging of The Taming of the Shrew at the Empire Theater in Santa Ana, California, featuring women playing male characters and men in the female roles.

McGlone, James P. “Shakespeare's Intent in The Taming of the Shrew.” Wascana Review 13, no. 2 (fall 1978): 79-88.

Claims that The Taming of the Shrew works better in performance than as a written text.

Mikesell, Margaret Lael. “‘Love Wrought These Miracles’: Marriage and Genre in The Taming of the Shrew.” Renaissance Drama n. s. 20 (1989): 141-67.

Compares Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew with his sources in both New Comedy and the tradition of shrew-taming tales.

Perret, Marion. “A Hair of the Shrew. …” University of Hartford Studies in Literature 11, no. 1 (1979): 36-40.

Examines Petruchio's role as an amateur homeopathic practitioner attempting to “cure” Katherina of her shrewishness.