The Taming of the Shrew

Cap and gown scene (Illustrated London News, 3 November 1886)

The Taming of the Shrew is a play by William Shakespeare. It is a comedy. Shakespeare's source was Suppositi (1509) by Ludovico Ariosto. George Gascoigne's play Supposes (1566) may have also been used. The play was probably first acted between 1593 and was first printed in 1623 in the First Folio. The musical, Kiss Me Kate, was based on the play. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made a movie of the play.

The Taming Of The Shrew Media

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  Petruchio (Kevin Black) and Katherina (Emily Jordan) from the 2003 Carmel Shakespeare Festival production at the Forest Theater.
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  The Shrew Katherina by Edward Robert Hughes (1898).

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  Catherine and Petruchio (from William Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew', Act IV, Scene i),*Charles Robert Leslie (1832)

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  Taming of the Shrew. Katherine and Petruchio by James Dromgole Linton (c. 1890).

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  Title page from the first quarto, printed in 1631 as A Wittie and Pleasant Comedie Called The Taming of the Shrew.

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  First page of The Taming of the Shrew from the First Folio (1623)

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  Scene from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew by Washington Allston (1809).