“The Taming of the Shrew”

This is a discussion about the play, not a reading or showing of it.

SYNOPSIS OF THE PLAY

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FREE VIDEO PERFORMANCES
• Columbia Pictures (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) (1967)
• Shakespeare Video Society (1983)
• Stratford Festival (2016)

KANOPY APP
Download the free app. Then link your library account to it. This will allow you free access to many Shakespeare plays. (Kanopy has a free version of “The Taming of the Shrew” starring John Cleese, of Monty Python fame, as Petruchio!)

ARTICLES
• Wikipedia: "The Taming of the Shrew"
• SparkNotes: “The Taming of the Shrew" Themes
• "The Taming of the Shrew" Navigator
• "A Modern Perspective: The Taming of the Shrew" By Karen Newman
• "About Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew" By Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine

PLAYS AND MOVIES BASED ON "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW" (WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES)
• "Kiss Me, Kate" (1948)
• "McLintock!" (1963)
• "Deliver Us from Eva" (2003)
• "10 Things I Hate About You" (2003)

“THE TAMING OF A SHREW” BY ANONYMOUS (1594)
• Shakespeare Documented article
• Article and free text download
• “The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto” (Amazon)

“THE WOMAN'S PRIZE, OR THE TAMER TAMED” BY JOHN FLETCHER (1611)
• Wikipedia article
• Folger: Free Pdf of text
• “The Tamer Tamed; or, The Woman’s Prize” (Amazon)
• Free Video: Willing Suspension Productions: “The Tamer Tamed”

BOOK
• “Three Shrew Plays: Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew; with The Anonymous The Taming of a Shrew, and Fletcher’s The Tamer Tamed”

GENERAL RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
• The Folger Shakespeare Library has free and paid (includes notes) downloadable texts of all of Shakespeare's plays.
• The Folger Library: Shakespeare Documented
• Podcast: “The Play’s The Thing”
• Podcast: “Approaching Shakespeare”
• SparkNotes 101: Shakespeare
• Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber