In response to: The Class of ’62 and the Princeton they knew
Current issue
October 2025
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ’92; President Eisgruber ’83 defends higher ed; Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ’92; President Eisgruber ’83 defends higher ed; Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia.
Somehow I always thought that David Entin was in the Class of 1963. He must have taken Alan Downer’s freshman Shakespeare class the year before I did.
As I think back on The Taming of the Shrew, I think that our instructors didn’t really emphasize a couple of important things:
a) The play may have been based on Queen Elizabeth (the first) and her lovers. It could have been very dangerous to write about her, but a play based in old Italy might have been safer.
b) The basic story could be that Kate was amused by the fool Petruchio, for whatever irrational reasons. And that she kept him as a sort of amusement. Some years ago the BBC came out with a version of Taming of the Shrew in which Kate was a member of Parliament. I think that the BBC version had the right idea.