The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 QuartoStephen Roy Miller This is a new edition of an anonymous play that appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that someone rewrote Shakespeare's more complicated version, making it shorter, simpler and different in some ways. The main difference between the two plays concerns the framing story of Christopher Sly, the drunk, who disappears early on in Shakespeare's version, but who has a much larger role in A Shrew. This edition provides a modernized text and extensive commentary. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
sources | 12 |
The issue of borrowing in A Shrew | 20 |
Detailed comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew parallels | 23 |
differences between the subplots | 28 |
Textual history note on compositors date | 31 |
Staging A Shrew Pemhrokes Men | 34 |
the influence of A Shrew upon the stage history of The Shrew | 40 |
List of characters | 58 |
THE PLAY | 60 |
Scenebyscene comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew | 127 |
Casting comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew and conjectural doubling chart | 143 |
Note on the Du Bartas quotations in Scene | 143 |
Crossreference to line numberings | 143 |
Common terms and phrases
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