The Taming of the Shrew

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo
Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

Panel on the RSC’s gender-flipped Taming of the Shrew: Kate & Petruchio in the age of #MeToo

By Terri Paddock|2020-01-25T23:23:40+00:0029 April 2019|Tags: Claire Price, Dr Emma Whipday, Joan Iyiola, Joseph Arkley, Justin Audibert, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, Terri Paddock events, The Other Place, The Taming of the Shrew|

I had a fabulous time last week in Stratford-upon-Avon seeing Justin Audibert’s new re-gendered production of Shakespeare’s early “battle of the sexes” comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1591), set in a parallel Elizabethan universe where women are in charge.

Q&A podcast and photos: Is Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic?
Q&A podcast and photos: Is Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic?

Q&A podcast and photos: Is Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic?

By Terri Paddock|2020-03-27T17:14:16+00:0028 July 2017|Tags: Brockley Jack Theatre, Kemi-bo, Lazarus Theatre, Professor Elizabeth Schafer, Rebecca Manson-Jones, Sara Reimers, Terri Paddock events, The Taming of the Shrew|

Is Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew inherently misogynistic? Particularly with its treatment of spirited Kate, the Shrew of the title, who is starved and mentally tormented (gaslighting long before Patrick Hamilton, Ingrid Bergman or Donald Trump).