Book description
The beautiful but sharp-tongued Katherina has sworn never to accept the
demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the wily
Petruchio, it seems that she has finally met her match. And as he meets
her own caustic words with a feigned, capricious cruelty, Katherina
quickly comes to understand the absurdity of her shrewish behaviour, in
one of the greatest of all comic battles of the sexes.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright of the 16th
and 17 centuries, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the word's pre-eminent dramatist.
Stanley Wells is the General Editor of the Penguin Shakespeare. He
is Emeritus Professor of the University of Birmingham and Chairman of
the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Margaret Jane Kidnie is Associate Professor of English at the
University of Western Ontario. She has written a critical guide to The
Taming of the Shrew and is the editor of Ben Jonson: The Devil is an
Ass and Other Plays.
