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''The Taming of the Shrew'' can be read online with [http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/?chapter=5&play=Shr&loc=p7/ Folger Digital Texts] and purchased from [http://books.simonandschuster.net/Taming-of-the-Shrew/William-Shakespeare/Folger-Shakespeare-Library/9781451644593/ Simon and Schuster]. The play can also be purchased in [http://books.simonandschuster.net/Three-Comedies/William-Shakespeare/Folger-Shakespeare-Library/9780671722609/ ''Three Comedies''], a collection that also includes [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']] and [[Twelfth Night|''Twelfth Night'']]. | ''The Taming of the Shrew'' can be read online with [http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/?chapter=5&play=Shr&loc=p7/ Folger Digital Texts] and purchased from [http://books.simonandschuster.net/Taming-of-the-Shrew/William-Shakespeare/Folger-Shakespeare-Library/9781451644593/ Simon and Schuster]. The play can also be purchased in [http://books.simonandschuster.net/Three-Comedies/William-Shakespeare/Folger-Shakespeare-Library/9780671722609/ ''Three Comedies''], a collection that also includes [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|''A Midsummer Night's Dream'']] and [[Twelfth Night|''Twelfth Night'']]. | ||
Hamnet link to Folger Edition: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=124086/ PR2753 .M6 2002 copy 2 v.30] | |||
Revision as of 10:10, 12 August 2014
This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see The Taming of the Shrew (disambiguation).
Love and marriage are the concerns of The Taming of the Shrew, one of William Shakespeare's plays. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Petruchio's wooing of Katherine, however, is free of idealism. Petruchio takes money from Bianca’s suitors to woo her, since Katherine must marry before her sister by her father's decree; he also arranges the dowry with her father. Petruchio is then ready to marry Katherine, even against her will.
Katherine, the shrew of the play’s title, certainly acts much changed. But have she and Petruchio learned to love each other?—or is the marriage based on terror and deception? This is just one of the questions this play raises for us.
The dating of The Taming of the Shrew is complicated. A play of the same name, printed and performed in 1594, may have been an early or reported version. Shakespeare's play was printed in the 1623 First Folio. Its sources include other contemporary works.[1]
Productions at the Folger
- Helen Hayes Awards
- Wins: "Outstanding Resident Play"
- Nominations: "Outstanding Ensemble, Resident Play," "Outstanding Director, Resident Play" for Aaron Posner, "The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play" for Cody Nickell, "Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play" for Kate Eastwood Norris, "The James MacArthur Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, Resident Play" for Danny Scheie, "Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play" for Sarah Marshall, "Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play" for Holly Twyford, and "Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production" for Cliff Eberhardt, Original Music, and Christopher Baine, Sound Design
Early editions
First Folio
- LUNA: First Folio: S2v - 2v1r
- Hamnet: STC 22273 Fo. 1 no. 68
Second Folio
- LUNA: Second Folio: S2v - V1r
- Hamnet: STC 22274 Fo. 2 no. 07
First Quarto
- LUNA: First Quarto
- Hamnet: STC 22327 Copy 1
Modern editions
The Taming of the Shrew can be read online with Folger Digital Texts and purchased from Simon and Schuster. The play can also be purchased in Three Comedies, a collection that also includes A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night.
Hamnet link to Folger Edition: PR2753 .M6 2002 copy 2 v.30
In popular culture
Translations
Performance materials
Other media
Notes
<references>
- ↑ Adapted from the Folger Library Shakespeare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 1992 Folger Shakespeare Library.