Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of reality.
The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.
The Taming of the Shrew is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.
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An annotated version of William Shakespeare's classic play with introduction and essay by Harold Bloom.
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Kate I chafe you if I tarry Let me go . Petruchio No , not a whit . I find you passing gentle . ' Twas told me you were rough , and coy , and sullen , And now I find report a very liar . For thou art pleasant , gamesome , passing ...
In The Taming of the Shrew, a wealthy man named Baptista wants to marry off his daughters.
It was Martin Harvey , acting under the advice and influence of William Poel , who in a 1913 production at the Prince of Wales Theatre , decided to supplement Shakespeare's text by interpolating the Christopher Sly scenes from A Shrew ...
An adaptation for young readers of Shakespeare's play in which a gentleman from Verona tries to tame the fiery older sister Katharina with his outrageous behaviour.
Bianca has many different suitors, but she cannot marry until someone marries her sister, Katherine, the rude "shrew". Then Petruchio arrives and proposes marriage to Katherine...--Quatrième de couverture.