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An edition of The Taming of the Shrew
(1631)
The taming of the shrew
a comedy
by William Shakespeare
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This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and tames" the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for the nobility.
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The taming of the shrew: a comedy
1735, Printed by R. Walker, at Shakespear's-Head, in Turn-again-Lane, by the ditch-side, and may be had at his shop, the sign of Shakespear's-Head, in Change-Alley, Cornhill
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A reprint of the 1714 Rowe edition.
Signatures: A-C℗£℗ø
Also issued as part of Walker's edition of The dramatick works of William Shakespear, v. 6, 1734-1735.
Engraved frontispiece after Fourdrinier (see Ford).
Not in Barton collection catalog.
ESTC T54132
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, 258
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy halfbound in brown, morocco-grained leather and marbled paper. The embossed stamp of the Library is present on the title page. The frontispiece is wanting.
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