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 140
... tell me , if I get your daughter's love , What dowry shall I have with her to wife ? After my death the one half of my lands , And in possession twenty thousand crowns . And for that dowry I'll assure her of Her widowhood , be it that ...
... tell me , if I get your daughter's love , What dowry shall I have with her to wife ? After my death the one half of my lands , And in possession twenty thousand crowns . And for that dowry I'll assure her of Her widowhood , be it that ...
Page 188
... tell me , I pray , you that durst swear that your mistress Bianca loved none in the world so well as Lucentio - TRANIO O despiteful love , unconstant womankind ! I tell thee , Litio , this is wonderful . HORTENSIO Mistake no more , I am ...
... tell me , I pray , you that durst swear that your mistress Bianca loved none in the world so well as Lucentio - TRANIO O despiteful love , unconstant womankind ! I tell thee , Litio , this is wonderful . HORTENSIO Mistake no more , I am ...
Page 207
... tell ] ROWE ; will tell FI 45 Another ' short ' line . Perhaps the four heavy stresses , and the monosyllables , are intended to give the effect of emphasis and conclusiveness . 48 be The subjunctive : ' may be ' . affied formally ...
... tell ] ROWE ; will tell FI 45 Another ' short ' line . Perhaps the four heavy stresses , and the monosyllables , are intended to give the effect of emphasis and conclusiveness . 48 be The subjunctive : ' may be ' . affied formally ...
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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