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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.
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The Tameing of the Shrew, Alterations in

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Manuscript alterations marked for insertion at specific points on pages of a copy of play. The edition to which they apply are not identified. Not produced as altered.

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A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew. : As it was sundrie times acted by the Right honorable the Earle of Pembrook his seruants

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Taming of the shrew / William Shakespeare

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This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.

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A pleasaunt conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew. : As it hath beene sundry times acted by the right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his Seruants

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Timon of Athens

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Based on Shakespeare's play of the same name, Timon is a wealthy Athenian who gives away much of his fortune to friends.

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Edited by Bartolomaeus Fontius, in collaboration with Franciscus Saxettus. Chancery folio and Royal quarto, with paper measuring 27.2 x 19.8 cm. One column of text, 34 lines; area of text: 18 x 11 cm. With initial spaces and guide-letters; without foliation and catchwords, except for one catchword on leaf pi6. Quires pi and a-x, leaves y2.5, y3.4, z2.5 and z3.4 are folio; rest are quarto.--Cf. BM 15th cent., IV, p. 627. Signatures: pi⁶ a⁴ b-i⁶ l-z⁶ &⁶ 2a-g⁶ 2h⁴ A⁸ (A8 blank). Imperfect: gathering A (the Tabula) lacking. Binding: red morocco; in green morocco solander case.

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A pleasant conceited historie, called The taming of a shrew

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