The Taming Of The Shrew
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: petruchio
subject: tranio
subject: katharina
subject: lucentio
subject: sly
subject: baggage
subject: slys
subject: rogues
subject: hostess
subject: will
subject: pay
subject: glasses
subject: burst
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: taming
subject: shrew
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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sort title: Taming Of The Shrew, The
full text: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW DRAMATIS PERSONAE A Lord. | | CHRISTOPHER SLY a tinker. (SLY:) | Persons in | the Induction. Hostess, Page, Players, | Huntsmen, and Servants. | (Hostess:) (Page:) (A Player:) (First Huntsman:) (Second Huntsman:) (Messenger:) (First Servant:) (Second Servant:) (Third Servant:) BAPTISTA a rich gentleman of Padua. VINCENTIO an old gentleman of Pisa. LUCENTIO son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca. PETRUCHIO a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to Katharina. GREMIO | | suitors to Bianca. HORTENSIO | TRANIO | | servants to Lucentio. BIONDELLO | GRUMIO | | CURTIS | | NATHANIEL | | NICHOLAS | servants to Petruchio. | JOSEPH | | PHILIP | | PETER | A Pedant. KATHARINA the shrew, | | daughters to Baptista. BIANCA | Widow. Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio. (Tailor:) (Haberdasher:) (First Servant:) SCENE Padua, and Petruchio's country house. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW INDUCTION SCENE I Before an alehouse on a heath. [Enter Hostess and SLY] SLY I'll pheeze you, in faith. Hostess A pair of stocks, you rogue! SLY Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide: sessa! Hostess You will not pay for the glasses you have burst? SLY No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy: go to thy cold bed, and warm thee. Hostess I know my remedy; I must go fetch the third--borough. [Exit] SLY Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come, and kindly. [Falls asleep] [Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his train] Lord Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds: Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd; And couple Clowder with the deep--mouth'd brach. Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault? I would not lose the dog for twenty pound. First Huntsman Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord; He cried upon it at the merest loss And twice to-day p…