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All references to The Taming of the Shrew, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Oxford Shakespeare (Oliver, 1982), which is based on the 1623 First Folio. Under this referencing system, 1.2.51 means Act 1, Scene 2, line 51.
- ^ Thompson (1984: 10)
- ^ Juan Manuel, Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio, Exemplo XXXVº – De lo que contesçió a un mançebo que casó con una muger muy fuerte et muy brava.
- ^ Shroeder (1959: 252)
- ^ Hosley (1964: 289–308)
- ^ Complete Text of A Merry Jest
- ^ Brunvand (1966: 345-359)
- ^ Tolman (1890: 201-278)
- ^ Halliday (1964: 181, 483)
- ^ See Morris (1981: 12-50), Oliver (1982: 22–34), and Miller (1998: 1-58). (From this point forward, The Taming of a Shrew will be referred to as A Shrew; The Taming of the Shrew as The Shrew)
- ^ a b Evans (1974: 106)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 31–33)
- ^ Thompson (1984: 4-9)
- ^ Miller (1998: 31-34)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 14)
- ^ See W.W. Greg The Shakespeare First Folio (1955) and Morris (1981: 13)
- ^ Wentersdorf (1978: 202)
- ^ See esp. Houk (1942: 1009-1038) and Duthie (1943: 337–356). See also Morris (1981: 16-24) and Oliver (1982: 24)
- ^ See esp. Hickson (1850: 345-347), Alexander (1926) and Alexander (1969: 111-116). See also Morris (1981: 14-16) and Oliver (1982: 31-33)
- ^ See esp. Shroeder (1958: 424-442). See also Morris (1981: 24-26) and Evans (1974: 104-107)
- ^ See Duthie (1943: 337–356) and Oliver (1982: 28-34)
- ^ See Miller (1998: 1-58)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 19)
- ^ Hickson (1850: 345-347)
- ^ Alexander (1926)
- ^ Chambers (1930: 372)
- ^ Kirschbaum (1938: 43)
- ^ a b Miller (1998: ix)
- ^ Miller (1998: 6)
- ^ Duthie (1943: 356)
- ^ Shroeder (1958: 424-442)
- ^ Hosley (1964: 302)
- ^ The complex arguments of Hickson, Alexander, Chambers, Kirschbaum, Houk, Duthie, Shroeder and Hosley are summarised in detail in Morris (1981: 12-50) and in Miller (1998: 1-58)
- ^ Morris (1981: 45)
- ^ Marcus (1991: 172)
- ^ Wentersdorf (1978: 214)
- ^ Makaryk (1982: 286)
- ^ Muir (2005: 28)
- ^ Miller (1998: 10)
- ^ Miller (1991: 26-27)
- ^ Miller (1998: 27)
- ^ Miller (1998: 9)
- ^ Miller (1998: 12)
- ^ Miller (1998: 28)
- ^ The New Shakespeare (1955)
- ^ The Shakespeare First Folio (1955)
- ^ The Arden Shakespeare, Second Series (1981)
- ^ a b Oliver (1982: 3–9)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 27)
- ^ Davies (1995: 26)
- ^ Aspinall (2001: 3)
- ^ Aspinall (2001: 12)
- ^ Bate & Rasmussen (2007: 527)
- ^ Boose (1991: 179)
- ^ a b Aspinall (2001: 30)
- ^ RSC downloads: Conall Morrison on directing The Taming of the Shrew
- ^ Bullough (1975: 58)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 39)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 40–42)
- ^ Baumlin (1989: 237–257)
- ^ Fineman (2004: 399–416)
- ^ Duthie (1951: 59)
- ^ Rackin (2005)
- ^ Bean (1980: 65–78)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 57)
- ^ Detmer (1997: 273)
- ^ Detmer (1997: 247)
- ^ Detmer (1997: 275)
- ^ West (1974: 65)
- ^ Detmer (1997: 274)
- ^ The letter, dated June 8, 1888, is reproduced in full in Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Works, a Critical Biography (Montana: Kessinger, 2004), 196
- ^ Detmer (1997: 110)
- ^ Krims (2006: 51–59)
- ^ Bawcutt (1996: 185)
- ^ a b Oliver (1982: 64)
- ^ Aspinall (2001: 26)
- ^ Halliday (1964: 483–84)
- ^ Oliver (1982:70)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 71)
- ^ 'Performance History', RSC Online Play Guide (2003)
- ^ RSC 'Exploring Shakespeare', Play Guide
- ^ Miller (1998: 52)
- ^ Miller (1998: 53–55)
- ^ Dobson (1995: 23)
- ^ Oliver (1982: 66)
- ^ All information regarding Catharine and Petruchio is taken from Oliver (1982: 67–70)
- ^ Thompson (2003: 24)
- ^ Laurentian University English Department
- ^ Oliver (1982: 70)
- ^ Michael Brooke, 'ScreenOnline: The Taming of the Shrew On Screen'
- ^ Robert Hamilton Ball. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968), 359
- ^ British Universities Film & Video Council
- ^ Michael Brooke, 'ScreenOnline: The Taming of the Shrew (1923)'
- ^ Kenneth S. Rothwell, 'The Age of Sound' (2002)
- ^ Unless otherwise noted, all information in this section comes from the British Universities Film and Video Council
Editions of The Taming of the Shrew
- Bate, Jonathan and Rasmussen, Eric (eds.) The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works (London: Macmillan, 2007)
- Bond, R. Warwick (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Arden Shakespeare, 1st Series; London: Arden, 1904)
- Evans, G. Blakemore (ed.) The Riverside Shakespeare (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974; 2nd edn., 1997)
- Greenblatt, Stephen; Cohen, Walter; Howard, Jean E. and Maus, Katharine Eisaman (eds.) The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Shakespeare (London: Norton, 1997; 2nd edn. 2008)
- Heilman, Robert B. (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (Signet Classic Shakespeare; New York: Signet, 1966; revised edition, 1986; 2nd revised edition 1999)
- Hibbard, G.R. (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The New Penguin Shakespeare; London: Penguin, 1968; revised edition 1995)
- Hodgdon, Barbara (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series; London: Arden, 2010)
- Hosley, Richard (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Pelican Shakespeare; London, Penguin, 1964; revised edition 1978)
- Kidnie, Margaret Jane (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The New Penguin Shakespeare, 2nd edition; London: Penguin, 2006)
- Oliver, H.J. (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Oxford Shakespeare: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
- Miller, Stephen Roy (ed.) The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- Morris, Brian (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Arden Shakespeare, 2nd Series; London: Arden, 1981)
- Orgel, Stephen (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The Pelican Shakespeare, 2nd edition; London, Penguin, 2000)
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur and Wilson, John Dover (eds.) The Taming of the Shrew (The New Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928; 2nd edn. edited by only Dover Wilson, 1953)
- Thompson, Ann (ed.) The Taming of the Shrew (The New Cambridge Shakespeare; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984; 2nd edn. 2003)
- Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John and Montgomery, William (eds.) The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; 2nd edn., 2005)
- Werstine, Paul and Mowat, Barbara A. (eds.) The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library; Washington: Simon & Schuster, 2004)
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- Introduction
- Characters
- Synopsis
- Sources
- Date and text
- Analysis and criticism
- Performance
- Adaptations
- References




