COLLEGE

HARVARD

SEP 12 1899

Lucy Osgood fund.

(I-II)

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

VOL. II

E

B

A Lord.

CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker.
Hostess, Page, Players, Huntsmen, and
Servants.

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,

BIONDELLO,
GRUMIO,
CURTIS,
A Pedant.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

KATHARINA, the shrew,
BIANCA,

Widow.

servants to Lucentio.

servants to Petruchio..

Day 1. I.

2. II.

Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio.

SCENE: Padua, and Petruchio's country house.

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DURATION OF TIME

He sug

Time, in this play,' says Mr. Daniel, 'is a very slippery element, difficult to fix in any consistent scheme.' gests the following:

Persons in the
Induction.

daughters to Baptista.

Interval of a day or two.

3. III. 1., Saturday, the eve of the wedding.
4. III. 2., IV. 1., Sunday, the wedding-day.
Interval [?].

5. IV. 2.

6. IV. 3.-5., V. [the second Sunday?].