The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's comedy features the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the play's namesake head-strong "shrew." Other characters include Lucentio, Hortencio, and Christopher Sly (who is the drunken tinker for whose benefit this "play in a play" is staged in the Induction). Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew after Romeo and Juliet, between 1590-1592.
Painting by Edward Robert Hughes, The Shrew Katherina, 1898.
Table of Contents
Act I - Scene I Padua. A Public Place
Act I - Scene II Padua. Before Hortensio's House
ACT II - Scene I Padua. Baptista's House
ACT III - Scene I Padua. Baptista's House
Act III - Scene II Padua. Before Baptista's House
Act IV - Scene I Petruchio's Country House
Act IV - Scene II Padua. Before Baptista's House
Act IV - Scene III Petruchio's House
Act IV - Scene IV Padua. Before Baptista's House
Act IV - Scene V A Public Road
Act V - Scene I Padua. Before Lucentio's House
Act V - Scene II Lucentio's House
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