CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (CliffsNotes on Literature) - Softcover

Maurer, Kate

 
9780764586736: CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (CliffsNotes on Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0764586734 ISBN 13: 9780764586736
Verlag: CliffsNotes, 2000

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

In CliffsNotes on The Taming of the Shrew, you explore one of Shakespeare's most beloved, and imitated, works. In this play within a play, Petruchio, the man from Verona, marries Kate (the shrew of the story), so that Kate's younger sister Bianca may be allowed to take on several suitors and choose one to marry.

Summaries and commentaries lead you, act by act, through this Shakespearean classic, and critical essays give you insight into Shakespeare's historical basis for the play, as well as role playing in The Taming of the Shrew. Other features that help you study include

  • Character analyses of the main characters
  • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
  • A section on the life and background of William Shakespeare
  • A review section that tests your knowledge
  • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kate Maurer received her Ph.D. in English from Marquette University and is an Assistant Professor of Composition and English at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

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Verlag
CliffsNotes
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0764586734
ISBN 13 
9780764586736
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
98
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