To understand The Taming of the Shrew as Shakespeare intended, you must imagine it to be in a land – such as Shakespeare’s England – where the observance of gender roles was a matter of life and death. It did not flow from a belief that women could not rule (after all, who ruled England?) […]
Archives for October 13, 2014
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This title of a new play by Simon Stephens may seem long-winded and awkward, but it is an accurate account of what a child with Asperger’s Syndrome might answer when asked to describe a moment in his recent past. That startling moment in the play happens the moment the lights come up on the figure […]