Deze auteur duikt met een passie voor literair speurwerk in de complexiteit van de Shakespeare-literatuur. Zijn werk verkent de fascinerende wereld van de Shakespeare-geleerdheid en tekstuele studies, en biedt lezers een unieke lens om baanbrekende werken en hun oorsprong te bekijken. Als vooraanstaand autoriteit op het gebied van Engels renaissance drama brengt hij diepgaande kennis over in zijn lezingen en geschriften.
Padua holds many suitors for the hand of fair Bianca, but Bianca may not be married until her spitfire sister Kate is wed. Could any man be rash enough to take Kate on? The witty adventurer Petruchio undertakes the task and sets about transforming Kate from foul-tempered termagrant to loving wife.
Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.
The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography.
The plays are presented as in the First Folio of 1623, with the addition of "Pericles" and variations which are agreed by the best Shakespearean critics. For the most part it is Delius's text that is followed.