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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Covers the time period from the late 19th century to 1993. Teenagers, such as Nancy Drew, have been omitted. The authors begin with an essay exploring changes in the characterization of the female sleuth since the late 1800s, reflecting on broader social changes in the prevailing concept of women in the United States, and also focusing on social issues raised in the novels. The bibliography describes approximately 165 American female detectives in about 650 books, representing around 160 authors. Entries are indexed by author, book title, and detective. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR