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The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

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  1. Induction

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  2. Act 1

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  3. Act 2

    21:53

  4. Act 3

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  5. Act 4

    39:21

  6. Act 5

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Baptista of Padua will not let his gentle younger daughter Bianca marry until her fierce, sharp-tongued older sister Katherina is wed first. Enter Petruchio, a fortune-hunting gentleman who takes on the challenge, marries Kate, and then sets out to "tame" her through a campaign of contradiction, deprivation, and psychological gamesmanship. Around this central battle spins a comic tangle of disguised tutors and rival suitors all pursuing Bianca. One of Shakespeare's earliest and most boisterous comedies, it has also become one of his most argued-over, thanks to Kate's closing speech on wifely obedience, which productions have played as sincere, ironic, or bitterly satirical. Whatever the reading, its wit and headlong energy have kept it on stage for four centuries.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.

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First published
1623
Reading time
About 90 minutes
Pages
106
Language
English
Genre
Comedy
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