This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio (1623). <p>It is accompanied by “A Note on the Text” and detailed explanatory annotations.</p> <p>“Sources and Contexts” provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare’s controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid’s <i>Metamorphoses</i>, George Gascoigne’s “Supposes,” and “A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin.”</p> <p>“Criticism” offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i>’s in fifteen essays by Laurie Maguire, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bernard Shaw, Natasha Korda, Frances Dolan, Lynda E. Boose, Harold Bloom, Patricia Parker, Shirley Nelson Garner, Juliet Dusinberre, Marea Mitchell, Karen Newman, E. M. W. Tillyard, and Jan Harold Brunvand.</p> <p>“Rewritings and Appropriations” collects seven adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz.</p> <p>A Selected Bibliography is also included.</p>