Taming of the Shrew (1921) Yale

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THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW

EDITED BY
HENRY TEN EYCK PERRY

NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXI

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
Act I	1
Act II	32
Act III	47
Act IV	60
Act V	88
Notes	102
Appendix A. Sources of the Play	115
Appendix B. History of the Play	124
Appendix C. The Text of the Present Edition	133
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	135
Index of Words Glossed	136

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The title page from the Quarto of 1631, including the title, author, and information about publication

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

Edited by

Wilbur L. CrossTucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society

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