The Taming of the Shrew

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The Taming of the Shrew. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare?s comedies. The central relationship, in which Petruchio boisterously ?tames? a rebellious Kate, has often appeared problematic. In the theatre, it has been treated in a diversity of ways, so that Kate?s apparent capitulation varies between the ironic and the sincere. Feminists have been divided in their responses. The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitte