Synopses & Reviews
This is a new edition of an anonymous play that appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that someone rewrote Shakespeare's more complicated version, making it shorter, simpler and different in some ways. The main difference between the two plays concerns the framing story of Christopher Sly, the drunk, who disappears early on in Shakespeare's version, but who has a much larger role in A Shrew. This edition provides a modernized text and extensive commentary.
Review
"Miller punctuates more heavily in his edition, but only enough to keep his modern readers aware of what is going on and to whom the action refers. Miller's efforts...give us immediate and relable access to the text and on the text of Shakespeare's Shrew." Shakespeare Quarterly
Synopsis
This is an edition of the anonymous play which is a version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
Table of Contents
Introduction; List of characters; The play; 4 appendices [including Appendix 1. Scene-by-scene comparison of A Shrew to The Shrew.