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The Taming of the Shrew riffs on a similar theme, right? I find that play fascinating, partly for the unresolved play-within-a-play setup (when the inner play e
by ttctciyf 11y ago
The Taming of the Shrew riffs on a similar theme, right? I find that play fascinating, partly for the unresolved play-within-a-play setup (when the inner play ends, we never go back to the container play..) and partly for the similarity to the 1001 Nights story[1]. Any speculation about the relation between the two works?
1: https://1000into1night.wordpress.com/26-the-sleeper-and-the-waker/ https://1000into1night.wordpress.com/26-the-sleeper-and-the-...
- esloanpa 11y agoIt does! Kate is a classic shrew/scold. But what makes "Taming" really interesting to me is that Petruchio is a far greater shrew/scold than poor Kate. The play within the play angle also fascinates me. Te way it gets sort of tossed aside after the first act and never resolved leads to all sorts of questions about the writing of the play itself. Did Shakespeare intend to have this framing mechanism and then it got forgotten in the process? Is this a result of lazy editing, or no editing? Did the printers miss something? The framing play often ends up getting cut, or awkwardly forced into a resolution by directors. It's wonderfully weird. :) -emily