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Critiquing Mastery and Maintaining Hierarchy in The Taming of the Shrew
Abstract:This article uses Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a case study to demonstrate how an early modern English discourse of benevolent domestic rule, evinced in horsemanship manuals, pedagogical treatises, and books of household governance, works to maintain the hierarchical status quo, even as it ostensibly critiques tyranny in domestic mastery. I argue that the play draws on detailed debates within horsemanship to cast Petruchio as a horse courser swindling the other gentlemen in the drama via Katharina's performance. In so doing, it encourages disinterest in the possibility of Katharina's resistance to or participation in Petruchio's scheme.
期刊介绍:
SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.