Male Pattern Boldness: Zeffirelli's Feminist Adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew

Abstract

In the history of the world, feminism got off to a relatively late start. Notions of female inferiority were held from ancient Israel to ancient Greece, from the early Christian era right up to today, which some refer to as the post-Christian era. Most scholars agree that 20^th-century feminism, although preceded by two hundred years of women’s rights struggles, did not emerge until after World War II,¹ and date literary feminism’s dawning at the late 1960s.²