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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 147–161.
Published: 01 June 1966
...Robert B. Heilman Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 ∗ Some of the material in this article appears in the introduction to the Signet edition of The Taming of the Shrew, which has just been published by the New American Library. THE TAMZNG UNTAMED...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1959) 20 (3): 211–227.
Published: 01 September 1959
...Garland Ethel CHAUCER’S WORSTE SHREWE : THE PARDONER By GARLANDETHEL Diversity of opinion or, in extremis, dogma characterizes a deal of Chaucerian criticism and scholarship but nowhere more noticeably than in what has been written about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1940) 1 (4): 475–479.
Published: 01 December 1940
... for a man to be a lambe in the house, and a Lyon in the field, appointing the decencie of his qualitie by the place, by which reason also we limit the comely parts of a woman to consist in foure points, that is to be a shrew in the kitchin, a saint in the Church, an Angel1 at the bourd...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 March 1966
... of Stephen Tillyard: two chapters on the matrices and the scope of Shakespearean comedy, individual chapters on Errors, Shrew, T.G.K, L.L.L., and Merch., and an appendant essay on the fairy- tale element in Shrew. An essay on Dream and a “conclusion” had been planned, but remained unwritten...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 92–93.
Published: 01 March 1966
... under the editorial supervision of Stephen Tillyard: two chapters on the matrices and the scope of Shakespearean comedy, individual chapters on Errors, Shrew, T.G.K, L.L.L., and Merch., and an appendant essay on the fairy- tale element in Shrew. An essay on Dream and a “conclusion” had been...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 135–149.
Published: 01 June 1962
... of these is in The Tmning of the Shrew, when Lucentio arrives in Padua, intending to study moral philosophy : Virtue and that part of philosophy Will I apply that treats of happiness By virtue specially to be achiev’d. ( 1.i.18-20...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1971) 32 (2): 219–223.
Published: 01 June 1971
... subject still has not had its Bradley, Wilson’s essay shows no awareness of Brown, Barber, and others who have changed our view of the comedies from that of Quiller- Couch. Once again there is much to be praised: a judicious examination of The Taming of A Shrew (Wilson concludes, without...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (1): 95–96.
Published: 01 March 1966
...., and appearance and reality in Shrew. The latter play, for instance, “is a comedy on the theme of appearance and reality with the excellent social moral that you must always be careful to look below the surface” (p. SO). As that not untypical remark would suggest, this is a book in which...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1941) 2 (2): 321–322.
Published: 01 June 1941
...-stricken shrew who brought Hooker nothing but trouble during his life, remarried within a few months of his death, and al- lowed his posthumous papers to be tampered with. Actually, says Sisson, there is little or no truth in any of this. Joan Churchman was a good wife, and “the amazing upas...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 49–57.
Published: 01 March 1949
... a shrew’s “jape” at the expense of the subtle Pardoner. The Wife begins with the announcement that her first three hus- bands “were goode men, and riche, and ~ldeShe proceeds with a few remarks on her practice with regard to them and gives some words of advice to women.28There follows...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1987) 48 (4): 303–319.
Published: 01 December 1987
... in the antifeminist satirical tradition. Characteristics of the typical figure of the shrew are to be found scattered, in varying degrees of concen- tration, among the learned sources noted above as well as in more popular sources such as the fabliaux. Millicent Carey and Rosemary Woolf, in particular...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1949) 10 (1): 58–60.
Published: 01 March 1949
... and the Pardoner) and the judge (the Pedler). The Pardoner has made women unbearable even to devils. It is “muche maruell,” the Palmer continues, beginning the winning lie, “That women in hell suche shrewes can be,” because of all the “women v hundred thousande” he has seen in all his travels...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1973) 34 (2): 217–219.
Published: 01 June 1973
... House and King Lear has often been put forward-most extensively by Stan- ley Weintraub in his important study,Journey to Heartbreak-but in follow- ing this up Morgan resolves many of the outstanding difficulties by adding The Taming of the Shrew, Midrummer Night’s Dream, and, most importantly...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 257–273.
Published: 01 September 1972
... to marry her, the knight echoes exactly the commercial alternatives offered by the Wife: “Taak a1 my good, and lat my body go” (1061). But the Lady refuses to negotiate: “Nay, thanne,” quod she, “I shrewe us bothe two! For thogh that I be foul, and oold, and poore...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 March 2024
... characters, offering a broad yet sparklingly detailed survey of women’s speech and action in The Taming of the Shrew , Two Gentlemen of Verona , Much Ado about Nothing , Twelfth Night , and All’s Well That Ends Well . These two chapters constitute the heart of the book, amply demonstrating the thesis...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1993) 54 (4): 435–482.
Published: 01 December 1993
... of “preposterous hs”for another “arts-man”in The Taming of the Shrew [ 3.1 .g- 14 as Armado issues the invitation to an “Arse-man”to “pre-ambulate”or go bejie. The whole exchange, from “Are you not lett’red?” to Armado’s “Arts-man, preambulate (and its disdain for the “barbarous then leads...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1982) 43 (2): 197–200.
Published: 01 June 1982
... the manuscripts in the Harvard Theatre Col- lection and elsewhere. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois Uni- versity Press, 1982. xliv + 274 pp. $20.00. Morris, Brian (editor). The Taming of the Shrew. London and New York: Methuen, Arden Edition of the Works of William Shakespeare, 198 1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1942) 3 (1): 17–40.
Published: 01 March 1942
... in The Taming of A Shrew, 11, ii, 1-4. This Shrew play was, we notice, first printed in 1594 and was entered in the Stationers’ Register on May 2, 1594, at about the same time as the other three plays in question. Perhaps Nashe used this play also, but I hesitate to say so, for the same four...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1986) 47 (2): 91–107.
Published: 01 June 1986
... is no Plautine shrew. She also represents a wife wanting the loving attention of her husband, and her voice defends the Anglican ideal of conjugal affection. In this respect she would have appealed to the sympathy of the original audience, for her dispute with Luciana is not nearly so one-sided...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1964) 25 (3): 375–380.
Published: 01 September 1964
... Press, Tennessee Studies in Literature, Special Number 2, 1964. 187 pp. $3.50. Kenneth Muir, “Venus and Adonis: Comedy or Tragedy George R. Hib- bard, “The Taming of the Shrew: A Social Comedy”; T. Walter Herbert, “In- vitations to Cosmic Laughter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream...