The Taming of the Shrew

First printed in the 1623 Folio, this comedy opens with a framing induction in which a drunken tinker is made to think himself a lord and watch a play. In that play, Baptista of Padua will not let his mild daughter Bianca marry until a husband is found for her sharp-tongued sister Katherina. Petruchio of Verona undertakes to wed Katherina and tame her by hunger, sleeplessness, and public contradiction, while suitors scheme for Bianca. The play is a comedy of courtship and household power, not a tragedy of Italian city politics.

Quarter bound in green Nigerian goatskin leather with marbled papers. Oxford University Press commentary volume. Green solander box with leather label or green slipcase titled in gold.