The Taming of the Shrew review, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon: an interesting but underpowered exercise in gender-swapping

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The Taming of the Shrew review, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon: an interesting but underpowered exercise in gender-swapping ★★★☆☆

“Since its first appearance, [The Taming of the] Shrew has elicited a panoply of heartily supportive, ethically uneasy, or altogether disgusted responses”. So wrote the critic Dana E Aspinall in a 2013 volume of scholarship on “Shrew” – which, as a magnet draws iron filings, attracts the word “problematic”.

 

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