From The Royal Shakespeare Company – A Fresh New Edition Of Shakespeare's Controversial Comedy Of The War Between The Sexes This Edition Includes: • An Illuminating Introduction To The Taming Of The Shrew By Award-winning Scholar Jonathan Bate • The Play - With Clear And Authoritative Explanatory Notes On Each Page • A Helpful Scene-by-scene Analysis And Key Facts About The Play • An Introduction To Shakespeare's Career And The Elizabethan Theatre • A Rich Exploration Of Approaches To Staging The Play Featuring Photographs Of Key Productions The Most Enjoyable Way To Understand A Shakespeare Play Is To See It Or Participate In It. This Unique Edition Presents A Historical Overview Of The Taming Of The Shrew In Performance, Recommends Film Versions, Takes A Detailed Look At Specific Productions And Includes Interviews With Two Leading Directors And An Actress - Gregory Doran, Phyllida Lloyd And Michelle Gomez – So That We May Get A Sense Of The Extraordinary Variety Of Interpretations That Are Possible, A Variety That Gives Shakespeare His Unique Capacity To Be Reinvented And Made 'our Contemporary' Four Centuries After His Death. Ideal For Students, Theatre-goers, Actors And General Readers, The Rsc Shakespeare Plays Offer An Accessible And Contemporary Approach To Reading And Rediscovering Shakespeare's Works For The Twenty-first Century.