The Taming of a Shrew
The 1594 Quarto

This is an edition of the anonymous play which is a version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

William Shakespeare (Author), Stephen Roy Miller (Edited by)

9780521087964, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2008

172 pages, 4 b/w illus.
21 x 15 x 1 cm, 0.26 kg

"Miller punctuates more heavily in his edition, but only enough to keep his modern readers aware of what is going on and to whom the action refers. Miller's efforts...give us immediate and relable access to the text and on the text of Shakespeare's Shrew." Shakespeare Quarterly

This is a modernized edition of an anonymous play, long known to scholars, which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that an anonymous person rewrote Shakespeare's more complicated version, making it shorter, simpler and different in some ways. The main difference between the two plays concerns the framing story of Christopher Sly, the drunk, who disappears early on in Shakespeare's version. A Shrew, as it is usually known, contains additional material for Sly which is familiar to playgoers because it is often included in productions of Shakespeare's play. The Taming of a Shrew, The 1594 Quarto, provides a modernized text based upon a re-examination of the quarto and extensive commentary. Miller's introduction establishes a direct link between A Shrew and The Shrew and includes an illustrated stage history.

Introduction
List of characters
The play
4 appendices [including Appendix 1. Scene-by-scene comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew.

Subject Areas: Shakespeare plays [DDS]