The Taming of the Shrew

Preface
Introduction
Text and Contexts
The Induction
Shrews and Shrew Taming
Authority and Violence in the Household: Husbands and Wives; Masters, Mistresses, and Servants
The "Feme Convert": Katherines Silences
Achieving the Marital Ideal: Sun and Moon
Endings and Alternatives

PART I: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (EDITED BY DAVID BEVINGTON)

PART II: EARLY MODERN DEBATES

1. Alternative Endings
From The Taming of a Shrew
David Garrick, From Catharine and Petruchio

2. Marriage
An Ideal and Its Contradictions
A Homily of the State of Matrimony
Robert Snawsel, From A Looking Glass for Married Folks
The "Feme Covert": Married Womens Legal Status
T. E., From The Laws Resolutions of Womens Rights

3. The Household: Authority and Violence
The Household
John Dod and Robert Cleaver, From A Godly Form of Household Government
Womens Work: Gender and the Division of Labor
"A Womans Work Is Never Done"
"The Woman to the Plow, And the Man to the Hen-Roost"
Wife Beating
William Whately, From A Bride-Bush
Of the Parts and Ends of a Mans Authority
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
Of Husbands Beating Their Wives
Servant Beating
Thomas Becon, From A New Catechism Set Forth Dialogue--Wise in Familiar Talk Between the Father and the Son
Of the Office of Masters or Householders Toward Their Servants
William Gouge, From Of Domestical Duties: Eight Treatises
Of Masters Maintaining Their Authority
Of Masters Making Their Authority to Be Despised
Of Masters Too Great Rigor
Of Masters Commanding Power, Restrained to Things Lawful
Of the Power of Masters to Correct Their Servants
Of the Restraint of Masters Power: That It Reacheth Not to Their Servants Life
Of Masters Excess in Correcting Servants
Of Masters Ordering That Correction They Give to Their Servants

4. Shrews, Taming, and Untamed Shrews
Shrews and Shrew Taming
"The Cruel Shrew"
A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morels Skin, for Her Good Behavior
"The Cucking of a Scold"
From The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy, of Punch and Judy
Analogues to Shrew-taming
Falconry
George Turberville, From The Book of Falconry or Hawking
Simon Latham, From Lathams Falconry
Watching A Witch
Matthew Hopkins, From The Discovery of Witches
John Stearne, From A Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft
Thomas Ady, From A Candle in the Dark
Untamed Shrews
Thomas Harman, From A Caveat for Common Cursitors, Vulgarly Called Vagabonds
Thomas Heywood, From A Curtain Lecture

Bibliography
Index