Shakespeare’s Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Woman’s Debate

Shakespeare’s Shrews investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses-paradoxical writing and the woman’s question or querelle des femmes-in the representation of the ＂Shakespearean shrew＂ in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othello.

Beatrice Righetti is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Renaissance English Literature at the University of Verona and a member of the ＂Shakespeare’s Narrative Sources: Italian Novellas and their European Dissemination＂ and ＂Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes＂ projects. She has published on Renaissance women writers and Shakespearean plays, examining the use of paradoxes, gender-based violence, and Anglo-Italian relations in Routledge edited volumes, NJES, and Linguae&.