Gender and power in shrew-taming narratives, 1500-1700 - David Wootton

Explores dramatic, narrative and polemical versions of the 'taming of the shrew' story, from the Middle Ages to the Restoration, in light of recent historical work on the position of early modern women in society. Its essaysaddress shrew narratives as an extended cultural dialogue debating issues of gender and sexual politics.

ANNA BAYMAN Faculty of History, Oxford University, UK
SANDRA CLARK Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature, Birkbeck, University of London UK
CHARLES CONAWAY Assistant Professor of English, University of Southern Indiana, US HOLLY A. CROCKER Assistant Professor of English, University of South Carolina, US
BARRY GAINES Professor of English Literature, University of New Mexico, US
H.J. HELMERS English Department, University of Leiden, Netherlands
GRAHAM HOLDERNESS Professor of English, University of Hertfordshire, UK
RICHARD MADELEINE Associate Professor of English, University of New South Wales, Australia
LEAH S. MARCUS Edwin Mims Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, US MARGARET MAURER William Henry Crawshaw Professor of Literature, Colgate University, US
JAN PURNIS Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada
GEORGE SOUTHCOMBE Praelector in Early Modern History, University of Oxford, UK DAVID WOOTTON Anniversary Professor of History, University of York, UK

'...[an] exciting collection...This rich tapestry provides what is so often lacking literary context. Whereas New Historicism focused attention on the cultural context of Shakespeare's works, scholars still too often pretend that no one else wrote on the subjects Shakespeare did. The range of texts discussed is, therefore, of great value...Highly recommended' - A. Castaldo, CHOICE