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Dowd: Trump takes leading role in tale of the untamable shrew


Dowd: Trump takes leading role in tale of the untamable shrew
Feb. 23, 2021
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Is Shakespeare a misogynist?
Should “The Taming of the Shrew” be retired, given Kate’s archaic speech of surrender at the end, laying out what women “oweth” to their husbands, or sovereigns, and urging wives to put their hands under their husband’s feet?
Can that speech be mitigated if Kate winks at the end, as Mary Pickford did in the 1929 movie with Douglas Fairbanks? Or if Kate poisons the Champagne at the end, the coup de cyanide of Lileana Blain-Cruz’s 2011 Yale School of Drama production with Lupita Nyong’o? ....

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