A riposte to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
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The Tamer Tam'd: John Fletcher
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Fletcher’s play is a riposte to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: in this lecture I discuss their interconnectedness as a way to identify Fletcher’s particular dramaturgy.
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