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Tag: Mu Guiying [穆桂英]

Gender politics in the Mandarin adaptation of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’

Empty theater stage with red curtains and seating, ready for a performance.
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November 8, 2011October 4, 2026Trista di Genova1 CommentBai Bingbing [白冰冰], Bai Xiaoyan [白曉燕], confucianism, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dong Wu Yuan Gu Shi [動物園故事] (based on Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story, Franco Zefferelli’, Hao Lina (Nana) [郝麗娜], Jing Yuanshan [經元善]), Kiss Me Nana, Lee Teng-hui [李登輝], Liang Chi-min Kiss Me Nana, love and marriage in China, Mu Guiying [穆桂英], Mulan [花木蘭], Peng Wanru and Bai Xiaoyan, Samuel Beckett, Sexual Assaults Prevention Law, Shakespeare in Taipei, Siew Wan-chang [蕭萬長), The Godot Theatre Company [果陀劇場], The New Taming of the Shrew in 1994, Wen Wo Ba Na Na [吻我吧娜娜], women and family, women's movement in Taiwan, work, Zhu Yingtai, Zhu Zhonekai [朱中愷]

An excerpt of a Master’s thesis, By Trista Hyde Special to The Wild East Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is a play about gender relations and the oscillations of gender-based power through an account of one man’s taming of a ‘shrew’ within a patriarchal society. The play has experienced a very controversial reception throughout…

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