The Taming of the Shrew

Name: The Taming of the Shrew
ISBN: 9780671488352

by William Shakespeare · first published 1631

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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. CliffsComplete combines the full original text of The Taming of the Shrew with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary into one volume. You will find:A unique pedagogical approach that combines the complete original text with expert commentary following each sceneA descriptive bibliography and historical background

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semi-extrinsic · Apr 18, 2016 · Mentions

…is almost certainly harassment. Yet this behavior is romanticised is popular culture, and has been from the dawn of time up to and including the present: Oddyseus and Helen of Troy, Shakespeare's "The taming of the shrew", tons of Fred Astaire movies, as well as modern movies like "Ghost", "Life is beautiful", "Chasing Amy", TV shows like "Sex and the city"... I could go on. Lucikly I don't need to, since TVtropes has…
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Chathamization · Sep 3, 2018 · Mentions

Its funny. I think if you took away the context of it being an old Shakespeare play, most people would find The Taming of the Shrew (which 10 Things I Hate About You is very loosely based on) fairly abhorrent.
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pattisapu · Jan 31, 2023 · Mentions

…Sportsmanship among athletes and collegiality among lawyers are good examples of this in practice. "And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends." --Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, sc. 2.
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langcss · Aug 25, 2024 · Mentions

When prompted LLMs Shakespeare said: You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse” The Tempest, by William Shakespeare “The poorest service is repaid with thanks.” The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare Pretty funny!
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jazzdev · Nov 5, 2025 · Mentions

I think Poe's Law applies to Shakespeare too. I recently saw Taming of the Shrew and people are still arguing about whether Shakespeare was endorsing Petruchio's starvation of Katherine to make her obey him. Or was that sarcasm, actually condemning that behavior? If only Will had…
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NY_Entrepreneur · Oct 11, 2011 · Mentions

…'Feminism' is mostly just the ideology for an excuse for being a weak, sick, or dead limb on the tree. It's not new but goes way back, through women's movements for many decades and to Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'. Now that ideology is on the way to being extinct. So, young men: Avoid what is going extinct. Avoid being an employee in a large organization and be an entrepreneur instead. When forming a family,…
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NickRandom · Jun 28, 2022 · Mentions

…Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Winter’s Tale. Average grades on them were between A+ to B's but dayamn! that olde timee englishee is hard to parse (even with the crib…
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rStar · Nov 7, 2021 · Mentions

…some dean koontz, stephen king or heck, tom clancy. it’s my life and I like what I like, and I encourage everyone to like what they like personally, and not allow themselves to be goaded into reading taming of the shrew, even if that is the best thing ole billy boy ever wrote.
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ncmncm · Aug 28, 2021 · Mentions

…34 | romeo-and-juliet | 677 | 23948 | 118 | | 35 | the-merry-wives-of-windsor | 604 | 21603 | 129 | | 36 | timon-of-athens | 504 | 18262 | 151 | | 37 | the-taming-of-the-shrew | 449 | 18709 | 128 | | 38 | the-two-gentlemen-of-verona | 404 | 17010 | 139 | with only 17 and 27 breaking 200, and still well shy of 252. But the real point of the article is that the…
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dandrews · Jan 25, 2010 · Mentions

Perhaps not hacker-worthy, but this brings to mind an incident from my youth that amuses me. In 1965 I was an eighth-grader in Mrs. Ray's English class, where we were studying The Taming of the Shrew. The school had distributed paperback copies of the text to each of us, and many of us were intrigued that our copies had been censored - a big black magic marker had obscured a single line in the play.…
evincarofautumn · Mar 20, 2012 · Mentions

While in high school, I think I only read A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew.
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zecho · Jan 16, 2013 · Mentions

I think the imbecile comment is unnecessary. One can still have a conversation about a subject without having much depth in the subject. If you haven't read Taming of the Shrew, you can still understand the story if I give you a quick version, and we can talk about that meta-story, because there are things in the text (via my description) that we both understand. However, it's…
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