Cover of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

3.4 · 35 ratings on Open Library

An unmarriageable shrew receives a marriage proposal.

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Length
22,000 words
Reading time
About 80 min
Format
EPUB, DRM-free

About the book

In the Italian city of Padua, a young gentleman named Lucentio comes to study at one of the city’s colleges. As is often the fate of men in Shakespeare’s plays, Lucentio falls in love at first sight. The object of his affection, Bianca, is the beautiful and docile daughter of a rich merchant. Her father, Baptista Minola, has declared that no one can marry Bianca until her older sister Katharina has been married first.

Katharina is the polar opposite of her sister: vicious, foul-tempered, sharp-tongued, and stubborn. Any man in her vicinity is at risk of receiving her brutal insults and physical attacks. It’s no surprise that no man wants to marry her—or that’s what she believes, until an equally difficult man named Petruchio arrives in Padua.

This is the Standard Ebooks edition, carefully proofread and typeset, with a table of contents and linked footnotes.

What readers think

3.4 out of 5

35 ratings of The Taming of the Shrew from Open Library readers, as of 10th Nov.

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