{"product_id":"9781903436936","title":"The Taming of The Shrew : Third Series by William Shakespeare","description":"The Taming of the Shrew is  unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling  success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing  polarized debate over the meaning and worth of the play. This edition  disengages Shakespeare's exuberant and disturbing marital farce from  the tangled history of its reception. It views the two  sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically  interdependent and so includes the full text of The Taming of A Shrew in an appendix. While the Introduction and Commentary focus on the critical and  theatrical debate surrounding the play, the original and comprehensive  editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew, more open  to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case. Barbara  Hodgdon is a distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play  offers a stimulating array of ideas and questions about this enduringly  popular yet challenging comedy.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308967571829,"sku":"9781903436936","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781903436936.jpg?v=1762809897","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781903436936","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}