The Taming of the Shrew

‘Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate’

The beautiful and 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. As he meets her caustic words with capricious cruelty, Katherina is forced to reconsider her position, in one of the greatest and most controversial of all comic battles of the sexes.

‘I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare.’ George Bernard Shaw

General Introduction by Stanley Wells
Edited by G. R. Hibbard
Introduction by M. J. Kidnie