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Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L Monique Pittman
Big-Shouldered Shakespeare: Three Shrews At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, L Monique Pittman
L. Monique Pittman
This performance criticism project enlists theorist Michel de Certeau’s concepts of institutional strategy and individual tactic to examine social resistance in three productions of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (1593/94) staged by the Midwestern Shakespearean repertory company, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. The three productions date from CST’s new millennium rise to prominence on the Navy Pier skyline and instantiate the ways in which the theater reconciles its self-promotional image of Shakespeare the Great Humanist with the misogynist content of Taming. Since 1999, CST has staged two full-scale productions of Taming, one led by David H. Bell (2003) and …