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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Images for kids
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The Shrew Katherina by Edward Robert Hughes (1898).
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Taming of the Shrew. Katherine and Petruchio by James Dromgole Linton (c.1890).
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Fr. Schwoerer illustration of Act 4, Scene 1 (Petruchio rejects the bridal dinner). Engraved by Georg Goldberg (c.1850).
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First page of The Taming of the Shrew from the First Folio (1623)
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Petruccio's hochzeit by Carl Gehrts (1885).
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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).
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Mid-19th century print of Act 4, Scene 3 (Petruchio rejects the tailor's gowns for Katherina)
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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).
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Julius Caesar Ibbetson illustration of Act 4, Scene 5 (the "sun and moon" conversation) from The Boydell Shakespeare Prints; engraved by Isaac Taylor (1803).
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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).
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Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg (1860).
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'Williams' cartoon from Caricature magazine; "Tameing a Shrew; or, Petruchio's Patent Family Bedstead, Gags & Thumscrews" (1815).
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John Drew as Petruchio in Augustin Daly's 1887 production at Daly's Theatre, New York.
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Louis Rhead ink drawing of Katherine breaking a lute over Hortensio's head, designed for a 1918 edition of Tales from Shakespeare.