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title: "The Taming of the Shrew (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays) Paperback – Unabridged, July 11, 1997"
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# The Taming of the Shrew (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays) Paperback – Unabridged, July 11, 1997

**Brand:** william shakespeare
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- **What is this?** The Taming of the Shrew (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays) Paperback – Unabridged, July 11, 1997 by william shakespeare
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent edition
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2022*

This is a super edition.  It is especially designed and notated for reading groups but would be invaluable for any one who really wants to understand the play.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Best Shakespeare Play!
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2012*

I love The Taming of the Shrew! I'm not big on Shakespeare to begin with (I can't say I'm an expert by any means) but I could read Taming over and over again. At first it was a little disgusting--me being female--but after digging deeper I really fell in love with it. The witty humor that Shakespeare offers is fabulous and the outlandish Petruchio makes it for me! Him and his lusty wench! Kate. I've watched a couple different movie versions, as well as the modern 10 Things I Hate About You, and it never gets old. In this specific version of the book I like how all of the characters with a small description of each are listed in the beginning. The critic reviews in the back of the book were great as well. They were able to be used as test/essay questions.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Look Past the Patriarchy
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2019*

It’s easy to dismiss the Taming of the Shrew as an example of early modern patriarchy. I even thought that the scenes where Petruchio insists to Katherine that the sun is the moon or night day—and then compels her to agree with him—seem more reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn than Shakespeare.But that would be to miss the major storyline of the play.  It has been imitated so much that reading it anew is an arduous task in itself. Shakespeare set the tone at the beginning of modernity for the training of a potential spouse, male or female, to be one’s lifelong mate.  Even outside of literature, one must acknowledge that this type of education goes on today throughout the world—creating many a happy marriage.While Kate’s final monologue and many of Petruchio’s tactics belong thoroughly in the past, the play can still be enjoyed without endorsing them. It was obviously meant by Shakespeare to be a light romance in which love, once again, conquers all.And, like many of Shakespeare’s comedies, the imagined world is more zany than believable. Are we really to think that Petruchio’s beating of his servants is meant to be taken by Shakespeare as realistic comedy?  No more than the beatings which take place in children’s cartoons.  Still less are Petruchio and Kate meant to be full-bodied characters.Sometimes one must simply accept the conventions of an age, both good or bad, to enjoy a work of literature. Who knows what barbarisms the future will see in the works of today? It may not be Shakespeare’s best comedy but it is humorous—even if the mores of a different era can be grating.

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