by William Shakespeare · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140707106
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«The Taming of the Shrew» is the comedy by William Shakespeare, published by Penguin Classics in hardback (256 pages, in English).
Elizabethan comedy set in Padua, where the gentleman Petruchio decides to marry Katherina, Bianca's elder sister, famous for her fierce temper. The play pits the two characters in a battle of wills that questions power relations in marriage and the role of women in the society of the time.
Volume in The New Penguin Shakespeare series, with introduction, notes, commentary and further reading by G. R. Hibbard.
An edition aimed at students of literature and theatre, and at those who want to read Shakespeare in his original language.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
