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A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew

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Description: The connection with Shakespeare's play is obscure. "The 1594 edition of The Taming of A Shrew is now generally thought of as a ‘bad’ quarto of Shakespeare’s play. It appears to be a memorial reconstruction by actors of The Taming of the Shrew, with assistance from an unknown writer, and was probably written in 1592." -- cf. the British Library.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1594
Call number: 69594
Provenance: John Bellingham Inglis (anonymous sale at Sotheby's, "Old plays", 12 April 1826:109, to Thorpe). Richard Heber (ms. number "2024", sale 4:2024). Devonshire (Chatsworth library) copy.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: (4to)
Associated people: Short, Peter, (-1603,); Burby, Cuthbert, (-1607,); Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616.); Inglis, John Bellingham, (1780-1870,); Heber, Richard, (1773-1833,)
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