{"product_id":"1439000-1623-shakespeare","title":"1439000 1623 Shakespeare.  Taming of the Shrew.  Two leaves.","description":"10221.\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaming of the Shrew.  From the First Folio.  1623.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: large;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Printing.  Two leaves.  Comedies 211-212, 229.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003eTaming of the Shrew.  From the First Folio.  1623.  First Printing.  Two Leaves.  (A third page is the recto of the title page of All's Well elsewhere in the collection.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"There's small choice in rotten apples\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003eThe fragment begins shortly after the induction scene of the play. Most modern productions including films do not include the induction scene in which a beggar, Christopher Sly, arrives at an inn and the host and guests at the inn sit him down and basically put on a play before him.  Following the induction, the fragment introduces us to both Petruchio and Kate, and sets out the basic premise of the play upon which the entire dramatic arc is based.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003eIn Padua, a gentleman, Baptista, is being petitioned by two suitors for the hand of his daughter, the beautiful Bianca.  Baptista says he will not allow Bianca to marry before he has \"a husband for the elder\", Katherine. It is generally known that Katherine is a difficult woman headstrong and for lack of a better term rather shrewish. One of the suitors, observes in an aside that Kate is either \"stark mad\" or willful, but the other suitor Lucentio insists he is more interested in Bianca, attracted by her \"silence and mild behavior\". The difference between the two daughters is immediately apparent when Bianca agrees to \"humbly subscribe\" to her father’s wishes, while Catherine questions why she must be quote appointed hours unquote as though she had no free will of her own.  One of the suitors, Gremio, suggests that he and the other unite temporarily to find a husband for Catherine so that Bianca is once again quote free for a husband unquote. The two suitors for Bianca then disguise themselves. Lucentio disguising himself as a schoolmaster thus giving him virtually round-the-clock access to Bianca.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" color=\"black\" style=\"color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003eThus in these four pages, Shakespeare has masterfully introduced all the major characters, set up enough mayhem for five or six ordinary plays and hinted at much larger (and darker) underlying themes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Calibri\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"\u003ePetruchio arrives from Verona. He is accompanied by his servant Grumio and there are a series of funny exchanges between them that provide  a foreshadowing of some of the violent comedic action that will follow. We learn that Petruchio is very short on funds and has come to Padua to marry a rich wife. Happily Kate falls into that category so he decides that he will woo Kate despite all that he has heard and knows about Kate and her behavior. He claims it would not matter if the woman were \"fowl\" or \"old\" as long as she had money. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\nExtremely Fine","brand":"1623","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41033783148717,"sku":"10221","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0284\/7646\/products\/10221.jpg?v=1636224784","url":"https:\/\/www.nrarities.com\/products\/1439000-1623-shakespeare","provider":"The Gillespie Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}