Taming of a shrew
| dc.contributor | Ule, Louis |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:58:03Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:58:03Z |
| dc.date.created | 1596 |
| dc.date.issued | 1971-06-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0004 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0004 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0004 |
| dc.description.abstract | The source of transcription is a normalised American version of the ms. located 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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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 16th century |
| dc.title | Taming of a shrew |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 67846 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1500-1599 |
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TOAS
THE TAMING OF A SHREW, KEYPUNCHED JUNE 1971 FROM THE COPY IN THE HUNTINGTON
LIBRARY.
)
A PLEASANT CONCEITED HISTORY, CALLED THE TAMING OF A SHREW.
AS IT WAS SUNDRY TIMES ACTED BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE EARL OF
PEMBROKE HIS SERVANTS.
A PLEASANT CONCEITED HISTORY, CALLED
THE TAMING OF A SHREW.
ENTER A TAPSTER, BEATING OUT OF HIS DOORS
SLY DRUNKEN.
TAPSTER. YOU WHORESON DRUNKEN SLAVE, YOU HAD BEST BE GONE,
AND EMPTY YOUR DRUNKEN PAUNCH SOMEWHERE ELSE
FOR IN THIS HOUSE THOU SHALT NOT REST TONIGHT. (EXIT TAPSTER.
SLY. TILLY VALLY, BY CRISEE, TAPSTER, I'LL FEEZE YOU ANON.
FILL'S THE TOTHER POT AND ALL'S PAID FOR, LOOK YOU
I DO DRINK IT OF MINE OWN INSTIGATION, OMNE BENE:
HERE I'LL LIE A WHILE, WHY TAPSTER, I SAY,
FILL'S A FRESH CUSHION HERE.
HEIGH HO, HERE'S GOOD WARM LYING. (HE FALLS ASLEEP.
ENTER A NOBLEMAN AND HIS MEN FROM HUNTING.
LORD. NOW THAT THE GLOOM . . .
