The Taming of the Shrew

Taming of the Shrew, The (The Tamynge of a Shrowe)

    Author: William Shakespeare

    First Performance: c.1591–4, London

    Published: 1594; 1st folio 1623

    Genre: Com. in 5 acts; blank verse and prose

    Setting: Padua, and Petruchio's house in the country, Renaissance period

    Cast: 13m, 3f, extras

A tinker Christopher Sly is found drunk and, for a joke, is taken to a lord's house, where he is persuaded that he is a nobleman. He is to be entertained by a play, in which Petruchio, in search of a wealthy wife, decides to woo Katharina, a woman of such violent temper that her father despairs of ever finding a husband for her. Once married, Petruchio takes his new wife to his house in the country, where he keeps her in isolation, bullying, teasing, and starving her, until at the end she relents and becomes a...

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