The Taming of the Shrew (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*Warwickshire. County in England’s Midlands area, which contains William Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford- upon-Avon. The induction scenes, outside a tavern and within a nameless lord’s country house, contain specific references to actual villages such as Greet, Wincot, and Burton Heath. This landscape introduces contemporary sociopolitical issues such as enclosure (the tavern abuts the lord’s hunting preserve), vagrancy and sumptuary laws (for example, Sly’s list of jobs and his being jokingly dressed as a lord), and the economic tensions produced...

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