The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew (English The Taming of the Shrew ) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It is about love and how they "earned" himself.

Action

In the prologue, the background story is clever, always a drunken tinker, unceremoniously removed from a restaurant after he went on a rampage. He remains lying in the street and falls asleep. A lord who returns with his entourage of hunting home, sees him lying there and takes him to his castle. He wants to allow a fun with the man. When Sly comes to, he is washed clean and perfumed in a pure bed, with servants around him. You talk to him, he was a lord who had suffered 15 years from mental illness and had now come to the happiness of his family and the servants back to himself. Especially his wife - a handsome young servant who was quickly put on women's clothing - be happy now, their loved ones to know again with him. People talk a cunning that his previously lived life was nothing but a dream, until he believes the story itself. As a traveling theater troupe of the castle comes, the actor playing him on the instructions of the Lord before the following comedy.

The scene is Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the younger of the two daughters of Baptista. However, Baptista has determined that he will not allow a marriage of his younger daughter before his elder daughter Catherine married. To win Bianca, Lucentio must therefore vacate not only the competitors Hortensio and Gremio out of the way, but also a husband for Katharina unruly, for no man is interested, see. So it is that Petruchio, an old acquaintance Hortensios shows up, and is looking for a rich game. Petruchio turns out in a war of words as a match for Catherine and tells her he will marry her if she wanted to or not ( " will you, nill you, I will marry you" II.i.263 ). Finally, she was no longer contradicts, as Petruchio says " kiss me Kate; we will be married o'Sunday " ( II.1.320 ). For the wedding, Petruchio is demonstratively too late and conspicuously badly dressed. Then he takes his new wife with him to his house where he withholds from you all the comforts of prosperity, and that of alleged care for his newly wedded wife. After a few days, in which Petruchio tries to tame Katharina has to admit defeat, after which Petruchio agrees to accompany them for the wedding of Bianca to Padua. On the way Petruchio says at lunchtime, how bright the moon seem; replied Kate, the sun sparkles, he refuses to continue the journey until Kate admit that it was the moon. Finally, Kate gives in, what Petruchio claims that it is the sun.

Lucentio is meanwhile managed with a few tricks to win Bianca's heart and her father's consent. After this wedding, the men bet on a banquet, whose wife most likely her husband's reputation obeyed. All guests are amazed when Catherine proves to be the most obedient. The piece ends with a monologue of the formerly rebellious, in which she sings the praises of the subservience of women.

In the epilogue, the background story of the original version is clever, as the performance is over, back to sleep soundly. The Lord orders now to put the man back on the road in front of the restaurant, where he finally wakes up to stagger home to his wife, who " read the riot act " is.

Dating of the text creation and performances

At the end of the 19th century has been discussed intensively over the authorship of the play, because a content part considerably different version of The Taming of a Shrew (TAS) of the well-known, in 1623 the first complete edition of Shakespeare ( First Folio ) The Taming of the shrew was delineated (TTS ) ( Albert H. Tolman ). TAS was published anonymously in 1594, 1596 and 1607 in three print runs. Philip Henslowe's diary can be seen that the earliest performance on 13 June 1594 as the Tamynge of A Shrowe was. The ratio of the two texts - in particular the question of whether TAS is only a template for TTS or a plant originating from Shakespeare himself - is still controversial.

In the text comparative analysis of both versions (TAS and TTS ) Tolman came because of the many similar or identical lines and passages between TAS on the one hand and Tamburlaine the Great and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus on the other hand believes that TAS have been designed by Christopher Marlowe must. This thesis has contributed to the Marlowe theory in the context of the issue of William Shakespeare authorship.

2011, the comedy The Men dream was: The Taming of the Shrew performed at Bautzen theater summer.

Translations

In classical German edition of Shakespeare, the Schlegel -Tieck translation so called, appeared Taming of the Shrew in 1831 in a translation by Wolf Heinrich Graf von Baudissin. Newer, more modern translations there are, inter alia, by Erich Fried, Frank Guenther and Anna Cron. Günther and Cron were aware of the original version, which is originally attributed to Robert Greene. The frame story with the drunken Sly appears not only as a prologue, but also as an epilogue in her. The drinker wakes up outside the pub, from which they had previously thrown him. To put into perspective the " taming ". It could be a dream of a drunk man.

Musical settings

• Thomas Arne: Catherine and Petruchio, incidental music to Garrick Theatre after Shakespeare, Dublin 1756
• Hermann Goetz: The Taming of the Shrew, opera, Mannheim 1874
• Richard Addinsell: The Taming of the Shrew, Opera, London 1937
• Cole Porter: Kiss Me, Kate, musical, New York 1948
• Vittorio Giannini: The Taming of the Shrew, Opera, Cincinnati 1953

Important adaptations

• The Taming of the Shrew, 1929, directed by Sam Taylor (senior with Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks )
• Kiss me, Kate, 1953 Director: George Sidney ( film adaptation of the musical Kiss Me, Kate, with Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel )
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1955, directed by Antonio Román, Spanish - French production with Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1967, directed by Franco Zeffirelli ( with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton)
• The Taming of the Shrew, 1980, directed by Jonathan Miller ( TV movie )
• The tamed shrew, 1980, Director: Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia ( comedy with Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti )
• 10 Things I Hate About You, 1999, directed by Gil Junger ( with Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger)

Ballet

The choreographer John Cranko processed Shakespeare's comedy with the composer Kurt- Heinz Stolze 1968 the ballet The Taming of the Shrew, which was premiered on 16 March 1969, at the Great House of Württemberg State Theatre from the Stuttgart Ballet.