ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an extract from The Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy by William Shakspere as Arranged by Augustin Daly, New York: Privately Printed, 1887. Keightley describes “The Taming of the Shrew” as “a rifacimento of an anonymous play” and Collier maintains that “Shakespeare had little to do with any of the scenes in which Katherine and Petruchio are not engaged.” It is evident from these testimonies that the comedy of “The Taming of the Shrew” that stands in his name is largely indebted, for structure, to its predecessor on the same subject. The version of “The Taming of the Shrew," which was made by Garrick, produced at Drury Lane, and published in 1756, omits several scenes, transposes other parts of the original, and converts the comedy into an efficient farce.
