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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
1734, Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster
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Signatures: A-C℗£℗ø D́œ
Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.
Engraved frontispiece lettered: P. Fourdrinier scul.; v. 3 p. 3.
With an advertisement at the front regarding the provisions of volume title pages, along with an attack on the competing Shakespeare publications of Walker.
Also issued as part of Tonson's edition of the Works of Shakespeare, v. 2, 1735.
Not in Barton collection catalog.
ESTC T54731
Ford, H.L. Shakespeare 1700-1740, 257
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown pebbled cloth. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page.
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