존 플레처의 「아내조련사 조련하기」: “남편의 쾌락의 수인(囚人)”에서 협상의 주체로
John Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed: From “a Prisoner to Her Husband’s Pleasure” to a Bargaining Agent
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Nearly twenty years after The Taming of the Shrew, John Fletcher wrote a sequel or a response, The Tamer Tamed, in which Maria, Petruchio’s second and newly-wed wife, attempts to tame Petruchio who is famous for a ‘wife tamer’. Thus, this interesting sequel provides more than a farcical continuation of Shakespeare’s plot; Fletcher makes it possible to examine the place and status of women and the nature of marriage from a woman’s perspective. Recently, many critics and directors have described and welcomed this play as a ‘pro-woman’ or ‘feminist’ text, in which Fletcher transgresses customary male expectations about the place and role of women in society as he also violates Shakespeare’s text. Assumptions about the feminism of this play, however, have not gone unchallenged; they challenge this feminist reading simplistic by arguing the play may rather be seen to depict women as the demons and reveal male anxiety about unwomanish women by inverting the situation, or by questioning the seriousness of Fletcher’s concern about the women question. This paper aims to examine how Fletcher, rewriting ‘the wife taming story’ into ‘the wife-tamer taming story’, interrogates the idea and status of women in the patriarchal society and to see whether it is a ‘pro-woman’ play or mere a brilliant theatrical reworking of the sex war convention.
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Nearly twenty years after The Taming of the Shrew, John Fletcher wrote a sequel or a response, The Tamer Tamed, in which Maria, Petruchio’s second and newly-wed wife, attempts to tame Petruchio who is famous for a ‘wife tamer’. Thus, this interesting sequel provides more than a farcical continuation of Shakespeare’s plot; Fletcher makes it possible to examine the place and status of women and the nature of marriage from a woman’s perspective. Recently, many critics and directors have described and welcomed this play as a ‘pro-woman’ or ‘feminist’ text, in which Fletcher transgresses customary male expectations about the place and role of women in society as he also violates Shakespeare’s text. Assumptions about the feminism of this play, however, have not gone unchallenged; they challenge this feminist reading simplistic by arguing the play may rather be seen to depict women as the demons and reveal male anxiety about unwomanish women by inverting the situation, or by questioning the seriousness of Fletcher’s concern about the women question. This paper aims to examine how Fletcher, rewriting ‘the wife taming story’ into ‘the wife-tamer taming story’, interrogates the idea and status of women in the patriarchal society and to see whether it is a ‘pro-woman’ play or mere a brilliant theatrical reworking of the sex war convention.
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