Whenever Shakespeare wrote a 'shrew' into one of his plays he
created a character who challenged ideas about acceptable behaviour
for a woman. This is as true today as when the plays were first
performed. A shrew is a woman who refuses to be quiet when she is
told to be, who says things that people do not want to hear. She is
constructed to alleviate male anxieties through ridicule, but like
so many objects of comedy or derision, she is full of power because
of her very ability to generate these anxieties. 'Shrew' is
supposed to be an insult, but has often been used to describe women
enacting behaviour that can be brave, clever, noble or just. This
book marries an examination of Shakespeare's shrews in his plays
with their history in recent performance, to investigate our own
attitudes to hearing women with defiant voices.
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