Taming of a shrew
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| Availability | This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now. |
| Languages | English |
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Encoding format: Plain text (with flagging) Normalised spelling American spelling converted to English Text in capital letters Speaker indicated in an abbreviated form in corner-brackets The key is not related to acts, scenes, or lines of any printed text All words not actually spoken have been removed from the text Elisions and contractions have been expanded |
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Plays |
| LC keywords | Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Taming of the shrew -- Sources |
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| Creation Date | [198-?] |
| Source Description | Not recorded. (Edited English version of University of Oxford Text Archive text 0004 which in turn was transcribed from a printed American transcription of the ms. in the Huntingdon Library, California: A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew : as it was sundrie times acted by the right honorable the Earle of Pembrook his seruants -- Imprinred [sic] at London : by P.[eter] S.[hort] and are to be sold by Cuthbert Burbie, at his shop at the Royall Exchange, 1596. -- The taming of a shrew ... was once thought to be Shakespeare's source, but it is now considered to be a corrupt version of his play [The taming of the shrew] compiled by the actor who played Grumio and an unknown playwright, from the Oxford companion to English literature.) |
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Mode of access: Online. OTA website Title proper taken from University of Oxford Text Archive printed records This particular text contains the direct speech of the play only without any stage directions |
