The Framing of the Shrews: Dream Skepticism from "The House of Fame" to "The Taming of the Shrew."
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Nathanial B.
The Framing of the Shrews: Dream Skepticism from "The House of Fame" to "The Taming of the Shrew."
- Published
- Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 234-58.
- Description
- Shows that Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" and the anonymous "Taming of a Shrew" feature skeptical parody of Stoic certainty about distinguishing reality from illusion or dream. As in HF, the "framing fictions" of the plays "make a show" of controlling uncertainty and reveal the skeptical "circularity" of any "dogmatic quest for authoritative certainty." Assesses how "[s]cenes problematizing authoritative instruction proliferate" throughout HF and the plays and, in the latter, destabilize antifeminist certainties.
- Alternative Title
- Comparative Drama 55 (2021)
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations