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Title	:	The Taming of the Shrew
Author	:	William Shakespeare
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 1593)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Fiction. Drama. Academic. School. Romance. Literature

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

Paperback | Pages: 291 pages

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Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -against her will- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works.

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Original Title:	The Taming of the Shrew
ISBN:	074347757X (ISBN13: 9780743477574)
Edition Language:	English

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There was a reason why I chose not to post that many updates with this play. Because they all would have included some F bombs. This play is super messed up and I cannot believe that anyone watches this and thinks, hey this is funny and so romantic. It is not. Well something nice first. I am very happy that I had the Folger's version which included notes on what certain words or phrases meant, and an explanation prior to certain scenes to explain them to me. Now onto something not so nice.This

The Taming of the Shrew, abridged.PETRUCHIO: Hey Mr Minola, I wanna marry your daughter. The fact that she comes included with an awesome dowry has nothing to do with this.BAPTISTA: Oh, I'm sorry, I have this jackass rule that my daughter Bianca can't get married until her evil older sister does, so...PETRUCHIO: No, I want to marry the Kate chick. My friends tell me she's a ballbusting bitch - a "shrew", if you will - and I love a challenge. BAPTISTA: SOLD! to the rich guy with a death wish.

As with all of Shakespeare's plays, there's always a different interpretation always handy at foot, be it a woman's duty to place her hand under her husband's foot or not.As it is, though, I can both be supremely annoyed with a society that demands that women be always so obedient, culturally, and be wickedly satisfied that Kate and Petruchio have worked out a true meeting of the minds and wills in such a way as to transcend all other's expectations.There's a little something for everyone in

The Taming of the Shrew is definitely not the late 16th century proto-feminist masterpiece youve been hankering for, but what it lacks in positive portrayals of the fairer sex, is overshadowed by the bounding leaps of comic gusto on display in every line of verse. Simply put, TTotS is a caustic farce of the war between the sexes (the merry war that, due to inbreeding and lack of imagination, would eventually devolve into the barely functioning aborted mutant that is the modern day RomCom) that

Re-reading the play this time, I liked it a little better than I thought I would. I predicted that the brutal treatment of Katharine by Petruchio would ruin the play for me, but it didn't. From the induction involving Christopher Sly, the text of "The Taming of the Shrew" is full of so many transformations (tinker to lord, page to lady, servant to rich young man, rich young man to teacher of grammar, rich suitor to music teacher, wandering scholar to prosperous merchant, etc.) as well as so many

When I was a student of English literature, I obviously read all of Shakespeare's plays (and more than once). Since then, I have reread some of them, but not this one. I tend to prefer his tragedies to his comedies. I'm pretty sure I read The Taming of the Shrew more than once, but not in the last few years. It is not one of his plays that I reread regularly, but I do have fond memories of reading it. In fact, this is a play I would recommend everyone to read, if for nothing else than for its

We get it Bill, you hate women.