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Taming of the Shrew
Cap and gown scene (Illustrated London News, 3 November 1886)

The Taming of the Shrew is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. Shakespeare's source was Suppositi (1509) by Ludovico Ariosto. George Gascoigne's play Supposes (1566) may have also been used. The play was probably first acted between 1593 and y first printed in 1623 in the First Folio. The musical, Kiss Me Kate, was based on the play. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made a movie of the play.

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  • The Shrew Katherina (Hughes)

    The Shrew Katherina by Edward Robert Hughes (1898).

  • Katherine and Petruchio

    Taming of the Shrew. Katherine and Petruchio by James Dromgole Linton (c.1890).

  • Petruchio ruins dinner

    Fr. Schwoerer illustration of Act 4, Scene 1 (Petruchio rejects the bridal dinner). Engraved by Georg Goldberg (c.1850).

  • First Quarto title page of The Taming of the Shrew

    Title page from the first quarto, printed in 1631 as A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie Called The Taming of the Shrew.

  • First-page-first-folio-taming-shrew

    First page of The Taming of the Shrew from the First Folio (1623)

  • Carl Gehrts Petruccios Hochzeit 1885

    Petruccio's hochzeit by Carl Gehrts (1885).

  • Washington Allston, American - Scene from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (Katharina and Petruchio) - Google Art Project

    Scene from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by Washington Allston (1809).

  • Sly Induction

    H.C. Selous' illustration of Sly and the Hostess; from The Plays of William Shakespeare: The Comedies, edited by Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke (1830).

  • Petruchio rejects the gowns

    Mid-19th century print of Act 4, Scene 3 (Petruchio rejects the tailor's gowns for Katherina)

  • Christopher Sly (Orchardson)

    William Quiller Orchardson's illustration of Sly and the Lord, engraved by Charles William Sharpe; from the Imperial Edition of The Works of Shakespere, edited by Charles Knight (1876).

  • Act IV, scene 5 (Ibbetson)

    Julius Caesar Ibbetson illustration of Act 4, Scene 5 (the "sun and moon" conversation) from The Boydell Shakespeare Prints; engraved by Isaac Taylor (1803).

  • TamingShrew01

    Arthur Rackham illustration of Act 5, Scene 2 (Katherina is the only wife to respond to her husband); from Tales from Shakespeare, edited by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb (1890).

  • Taming of the shrew

    Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg (1860).

  • Tameing a Shrew; or, Petruchio's Patent Family Bedstead, Gags & Thumscrews

    'Williams' cartoon from Caricature magazine; "Tameing a Shrew; or, Petruchio's Patent Family Bedstead, Gags & Thumscrews" (1815).

  • John Drew as Petruchio

    John Drew as Petruchio in Augustin Daly's 1887 production at Daly's Theatre, New York.

  • Katherine hits the music master

    Louis Rhead ink drawing of Katherine breaking a lute over Hortensio's head, designed for a 1918 edition of Tales from Shakespeare.


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