The Taming of the Shrew (Paperback) + CliffsNotes

Condition

GOOD: The book’s spine, covers, and pages are in good condition. There are no markings or highlights. The pages are tanning with age (1963).

Product Details

The Taming of the Shrew

This book is part of the Folger Library Collections and is edited by Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar. There are black-and-white, pen-and-ink drawings throughout.

Every fifth line of each scene is numbered for easy reference. Each scene is preceded by a brief glossary (indexed by line number) and a brief summary. At the end of the book, there is a key to famous lines and phrases.

Other features of the The Folger Library Shakespeare editions include:

What Was Shakespeare Thinking?: "Shakespeare knew precisely what he was doing when he prepared the comedy for the stage. He expected his audience to accept the conventions for this kind of comedy and to disregard absurdities of plot and even of characterizations. He was not writing a realistic comedy of manners but was breathing new life into a set of stock situations that audiences had found laughable since the beginning of comic drama." — from "War of the Sexes" (page xi).

CliffsNotes

From "A Note to the Reader": "These Notes present a clearn discussion of the action and thought of the work under consideration and a concise interpretation of its artistic merits and its significance. ...

"THESE NOTES ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TEXT ITSELF OR FOR THE CLASSROOM DISCUSSION OF THE TEXT, AND STUDENTS WHO ATTEMPT TO USE THEM IN THIS WAY ARE DENYING THEMSELVES THE VERY EDUCATION THAT THEY ARE PRESUMABLY GIVING THEIR MOST VITAL YEARS TO ACHIEVE."

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