The Taming of the Shrew

British & Irish Dramas & Plays

Author: William Shakespeare

One of the most controversial and problematic of all of Shakespeare’s plays, The Taming of the Shrew is a typical Elizabethan domestic comedy written around 1592. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, arrives in Padua and announces to his friends that “I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; / If wealthily, then happily in Padua”. He soon finds that a group of men keen to marry….Read More

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