When was taming of the shrew written

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Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. Taming of the Shrew Taming of the Shrew. A unique addition to tradition The resourceful ingenuity shown by Petruchio in his 'teaching' of his new wife is a long way from this cruelty. Sermons on duty and behaviour Shakespeare's original audience would have been familiar with sermons and pamphlets on the subject of decorous marital behaviour.

Classical tales For the third strand of his plot, Shakespeare turned to more a classical, literary source: the entanglements around Bianca and her wooers are similar to those in George Gascoigne's play Supposes. You are in: About Shakespeare. You may also like.

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Unfortunately, payments are no longer supported by Mastercard in your web browser Mozilla 0. There are virtually no records of performances of The Taming of the Shrew. The Taming of the Shrew and The Taming of a Shrew seem to have been treated as identical for copyright purposes. There was another printing in British Library copies of The Taming of the Shrew contains detailed bibliographic descriptions of all the quarto copies of the play.

Only one direct literary source has been identified. The Taming of the Shrew is set in Padua and the countryside near Verona. Induction A drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, is tricked by a group of noblemen into believing he is a lord. In his false status, he is entertained with a play by a group of travelling actors. Act 1 Lucentio arrives in Padua as a student.

He sees the merchant Baptista and his two daughters, and immediately falls in love with the younger, Bianca. Baptista declares that her elder sister Katherina, a shrew, must be married before Bianca.