The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the
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This edition of The Taming of the Shrew is edited with an introduction and notes by series editor Stephen Orgel.
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