Petruchio’s boisterous ‘taming’ of the rebellious Kate lies at the heart of one of Shakespeare’s most famous and most controversial comedies, a relationship that has often struck audiences as deeply problematic. Stage productions have handled it in a wide variety of ways, so that Kate’s apparent capitulation can read as anything from sincere to sharply ironic, and feminist critics remain divided on how to respond. The play’s provocative energy has carried it through numerous adaptations for stage and screen, most notably Franco Zeffirelli’s film and Cole Porter’s musical, Kiss Me, Kate. This edition, part of the Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare’s Series presenting a newly-edited sequence of Shakespeare’s works with textual editing that takes account of recent scholarship while offering a careful reappraisal, is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
ISBN 13: 9781853260797
Author: William Shakespeare
