Yesterday, we discussed marital and legal matters when it comes to women. Today, let’s just look the general role of women during the Elizabethan era.
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Elizabethan Marital/Gender Legality
OK, we’ve only glossed over this so far in this month’s discussion of The Taming of the Shrew… but let’s take a couple of days and discuss matters of Elizabethan marital and gender legality, and the role of women during Shakespeare’s day.
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Podcast 12: The Taming of the Shrew DVD Reviews
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This week’s podcast includes reviews of four different The Taming of the Shrew DVDs, a review of this week’s blog topics, and a reminder about our monthly casting contest.
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In the Name of the Father
Last month, we took a look at parenting in Titus Andronicus, so this month let’s do it again with some random thoughts on fatherhood in The Taming of the Shrew.
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Comedy of the Artists
Since one of the DVD versions of The Taming of the Shrew that I’ll be reviewing as part of this week’s podcast takes much of its visual style from commedia dell’arte, I figure now is as good a time as any to do a little regurgitation of dramatic data:
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It’s Contest Time Again!
OK, so you’re a director… and you’re about to mount a production of The Taming of the Shrew (or it could be a movie version)…
who would be your dream cast?
why?
And, why, gentle reader, why should you do this???
a free Bill / Shakespeare Project tee-shirt to the best/most original/most well-reasoned casting director
That’s why!
Enter by commenting to this blog entry. Contest entries due before 12 Noon (Pacific) on Thursday, August 24. I’ll announce the winner in the last podcast of the month (Sunday, August 27).
Good luck!
Bawdy, Body, Who’s got the Bawdy?
Back in my first experience with Shakespeare, I was lucky enough to have as my guide, Bill Lindquist, a fearless teacher who was more than willing to go that extra unexpurgated mile for us students and show the bawdiness behind the Bard. So if last month’s play came down on the bloody side of the “sex and violence” equation, then The Taming of the Shrew definitely falls (or maybe that’s “stands up”) under the sticky sweet side.
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Disguises
Unlike a play like The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew deals not with unintentional mistaken identity, but rather very intentional mistaken identity.
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Ovid: Bowm-Chicka-BowWah
Last month, we discussed the use of references to the Roman poet Ovid (and mostly to his Metamorphosis) in Titus Andronicus… we also mentioned near the end of the month that Shakespeare would be using more Ovid later in his career. I mentioned a couple of plays where the references were obvious, but didn’t know at the time that The Taming of the Shrew would have its share of Ovid-ian (not a word I’m sure) focal points.
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Podcast 11: The Taming of the Shrew Intro and Overview
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This week’s podcast includes an introduction to The Taming of the Shrew, a not-so brief synopsis, a discussion of the Induction (and thereby the play’s versions), and a review of this week’s blog topics. Also, our monthly casting contest.
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