A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Fletcher’s play is a riposte to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: in this lecture I discuss their interconnectedness as a way to identify Fletcher’s particular dramaturgy.

Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

Oxford University

The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher

NOV 16, 201552 MIN
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre

The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher

NOV 16, 201552 MIN

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A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Fletcher’s play is a riposte to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: in this lecture I discuss their interconnectedness as a way to identify Fletcher’s particular dramaturgy.