Teaching form in The Taming of the Shrew -- A puzzle for students: Is Shakespeare's shrew tamed or unmasked? -- Teaching wit: Attention to barbed dialog in The Taming of the Shrew -- Pervasive contentiousness in The Taming of the Shrew -- Reading Bianca -- Reversing the polarity: teaching textual practices through The Taming of the Shrew -- The Taming of the Shrew as introduction to a Shakespeare course -- "To serve, love, and obey?": The Taming of the Shrew and early modern marriage -- "The woman is a weak creature": The Homily of matrimony and The Taming of the Shrew -- Music, Ovid, and the Renaissance classroom in The Taming of the Shrew -- "To teach both sexes due equality" -- Kate, the commonplace: the framing of the Shrew -- "Practise rhetoric in your common talk": The Taming of the Shrew as an exercise in rhetorical strategy -- Fifteen women and Nick Sly, the astrophysicist: staging critical engagements with The Taming of the Shrew -- Students stage Shrew! The theater as classroom -- What does the introduction do? Introducing concepts of action -- The teaching of a Shrew: Exploring textual differences through classroom performance -- The Harlequin The Taming of the Shrew -- Scenes from a Renaissance marriage: The Taming of the Shrew on film -- Whose play is it, anyway? Viewing The Taming of the Shrew pedagogically -- Playing with the meat of the matter: A Props exercise -- Using performance to teach textual skepticism in The Taming of the Shrew -- Cross-dressing, comic power inversions, and "supposes": Performing the beginning and the end of The Taming of the Shrew -- Dominating humor in The Taming of the Shrew -- What's in a word? Teaching play with the OED -- "She strikes him": Stage work and The Taming of the Shrew -- Performance DVD: From the stage to the page (and back again)
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