SHREW
ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company have come together as Union Arts Center to present SHREW by William Shakespeare, directed by Bobbin Ramsey, from October 18 to November 2. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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Women of Will
With an exceptional career as an actress, director, and founder of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, Packer is one of the country's foremost experts on the English Renaissance dramatist. Here she tackles Shakespeare's relationship to the feminine, and how this relationship transforms throughout his plays. (Publisher)
Format: Book
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Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare
This classic BBC radio production of The Taming of the Shrew features some of the best-known theatrical actors of the 20th Century and is the perfect way to commemorate England's greatest dramatist. (BBC Archives)
Format: eAudiobook
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Vinegar Girl
The third installment of the Hogarth Shakespeare series transfers the 16th--century comedy The Taming of the Shew, set in Padua, Italy, to Tyler's familiar territory, a contemporary Baltimore neighborhood. (Publisher)
Format: Book
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. Her book is both a sustained argument for emancipation and an attack on a social and an economic system. (Publisher)
Format: Book
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Shrew – Union Arts Center
Girl meets boy. Girl hates boy. Girl agrees to marry boy against her will so her sister can get married, too. Got it? Experience Shakespeare’s play of matrimonial misery as you’ve never seen it before. Shrew uses the classic text—inverted, upended, and overturned—to offer a modern-day perspective on how far we’ve come when it comes to love—and how far we still have to go.
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