Anne Tyler, Vinegar Girl

Cecilia Donohue (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication Jun 2016

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Anne Tyler’s 21^st novel, Vinegar Girl, offers readers a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Published as part of the Hogarth Shakespeare series of “novelistic adaptations of various Bard plays” (Fischer), Vinegar Girl is not Tyler’s first brush with Shakespeare for a plot point; 1995’s Ladder of Years featured three daughters of a widower, the youngest and closest to him named Cordelia. But while the parallels between Lear and Ladder began and ended there, Vinegar Girl appropriates the essential plot and characters of the original Shrew whileincorporating cultural values, social issues, and gender politics of the 21

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Citation: Donohue, Cecilia. "Vinegar Girl". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 September 2016 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35822, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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