![]() ![]() Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play The authoritative edition of The Taming of the Shrew from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: But have she and Petruchio learned to love each other? Or is the marriage based on terror and deception? Katherine, the shrew of the play’s title, certainly acts much changed. Petruchio is then ready to marry Katherine, even against her will. Petruchio takes money from Bianca’s suitors to woo her, since Katherine must marry before her sister by her father’s decree he also arranges the dowry with her father. Petruchio’s wooing of Katherine, however, is free of idealism. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. ![]()
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