
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Series: Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Narrator: Frances Barber, Roger Allam, a full cast
Unabridged: 2 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Arkangel
Published: 08/15/2005

Author: William Shakespeare
Series: Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Narrator: Frances Barber, Roger Allam, a full cast
Unabridged: 2 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Arkangel
Published: 08/15/2005
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.
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Frances Barber, in addition to her outstanding narration, has appeared in Inspector Morse, The Ice House, Love in a Cold Climate, and Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced.
Roger Allam played Javert in the original London production of Les Misérables and Falstaff in the Shakespeare’s Globe 2010 production of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. He has been nominated four times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning twice, and he has also won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film work includes roles in The Queen, Speed Racer, V for Vendetta, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Tamara Drewe, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and the television series The Thick of It. He has narrated audiobooks for numerous bestselling authors, including Jeffrey Archer, Ian McEwan, Ian Rankin, and Joseph Conrad. Roger lives in southwest London with his wife, actress Rebecca Saire, and their two young sons.
Huh. This certainly didn't age well, did it? And I get it. You can't really judge an old ass play by today's moral standards. Except you kind of can. So. Kate is kind of a screechy bitch who doesn't want to get married. Her father (idiotically) proclaims that he won't allow his younger daughter, Bianc......more
Lucentio: Hey, I'm Lucentio. Who's that hot girl? Bianca: That would be me. And hotness is about all I have going for me. Because I only have about 5 lines. Lucentio: Wanna have sex get married? Baptista: I'm her father, you whippersnapper. Get in line. She can't get married until her older sister does......more
It makes some people feel better to believe that the rampant misogyny in this play is supposed to be ironic. Well, whatever. I still don't much enjoy watching a woman having her spirit broken down until she's nothing but a shell of what she once was.......more
The gentle gentleman, William Shakespeare pokes glorious fun at customs, marriages , greed and scoundrels, especially pretentious men and women. .. A practical joke can be carried to the extreme, in the northern Italian city of Padua, in the time of the brilliant Renaissance, a poor intoxicated man......more
“One of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and problematic comedies.” San Francisco Chronicle
“The thorniest play in the canon, with the possible exception of The Merchant of Venice.” The Telegraph (London)
“A lusty, witty, well-crafted comedy, The Taming of the Shrew abounds in vigorous, often ribald wordplay.” Masterpieces of World Literature
“An early comedy whose particular strength is the vigorous control of its central relationship. Modern audiences must accept that Katharina is not the loser by her taming, though arguments about the possible ironies of her dutiful final speech will continue.” The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
“[Shakespeare is] challenging an audience’s expectations of how a woman is supposed to behave. What if, as a human being, she doesn’t want to roll over, as was expected in Shakespeare’s day? I actually think he’s championing the woman's rights.” Edward Hall, English theater director