"Contemporary critical essays"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index.
Contents:
A shrew for the times / Diana E. Henderson. Half a dozen dangerous words / S.P. Cerasano -- Much ado about nothing : the unsociable comedy / Barbara Everett -- Much ado about nothing : a kind of merry war / Penny Gay -- Antitheatricality staged. The workings of ideology in Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing / Jean E. Howard -- The turn of the shrew / Joel Fineman -- Renaissance family politics and Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew / Karen Newman -- Scolding brides and bridling scolds : taming the woman's unruly member / Lynda E. Boose -- Household Kates : domesticating commodities in The taming of the shrew / Natasha Korda -- A shrew for the times / Diana E. Henderson.
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