The Taming of the ShrewClarendon Press, 1982 - 248 pages The introduction offers a full and original consideration fo th play's textual problems, a study of sources, a survey of scholarship and criticism, with the editor's own critical appreciation, and a study of the comedy's fortunes in the theatre. |
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Page 12
... marry a wealthy widow who has loved him as long as he has loved Bianca and he goes off . Tranio promptly announces this to Bianca and Lucentio and in- congruously adds that Hortensio has gone to Petruchio's ' taming schoole ' . But ...
... marry a wealthy widow who has loved him as long as he has loved Bianca and he goes off . Tranio promptly announces this to Bianca and Lucentio and in- congruously adds that Hortensio has gone to Petruchio's ' taming schoole ' . But ...
Page 67
... marry him , to try if I can't tame him ' , in spite of an apparent difference , is only too like Lacy's ' I have a good mind to marry him to try if he can tame me ' ; and the shrew is again ' Margaret ' ( ' Peg ' ) , though daughter of ...
... marry him , to try if I can't tame him ' , in spite of an apparent difference , is only too like Lacy's ' I have a good mind to marry him to try if he can tame me ' ; and the shrew is again ' Margaret ' ( ' Peg ' ) , though daughter of ...
Page 149
... Marry , so I mean , sweet Katherine , in thy bed . And therefore , setting all this chat aside , Thus in plain terms : your father hath consented That you shall be my wife ; your dowry ' greed on ; And will you , nill you , I will marry ...
... Marry , so I mean , sweet Katherine , in thy bed . And therefore , setting all this chat aside , Thus in plain terms : your father hath consented That you shall be my wife ; your dowry ' greed on ; And will you , nill you , I will marry ...
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Abbott audience Bad Quartos Baptista Bianca Biondello called Cambio Cambridge CAPELL character COLLIER comedy Compare compositor conj CURTIS daughter disguise Duthie edition editors Elizabethan emendation English Studies Enter Exeunt Exit father FI's fool Gentlemen give Grumio haberdasher hath hear horse Hortensio Hosley humour husband Induction Kate Kate's KATHERINA Katherine's later lines Litio London look Lord Lucentio Mantua marry master mean Merry Wives mistress modern Padua Pedant Pembroke's Men perhaps Petruchio phrase Pisa play players POPE pray presumably probably prose quibble rhyme Romeo and Juliet ROWE scene seems sense servant SERVINGMAN Shake Shrew Signor Gremio Sirrah sister Sly's speak speech prefix stage direction STEEVENS story subs suitor sweet tailor Taming tell theatre thee THEOBALD thou Tranio unto verb verse Vincentio vols W. W. Greg wedding widow wife William Shakespeare wooing word ΙΟ