A wittie and pleasant comedie called the taming of the shrew : as it was acted by his Maiesties Seruants at the Blacke Friers and the Globe / Written by VVill. Shakespeare

Alternate Title:

Taming of the shrew; The taming of the shrew.

Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 (author)

Contributor:

Stansby, William, active 1597-1638 (printer); Smethwicke, John, -1641 (bookseller); Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883 (bookbinder)

Date:

1631

Language:

English

Provenance:

Furness, Horace Howard (bookplate) (inscription, London, April 1871) (copy 2); Furness, Horace Howard, Jr. (donor) (copy 2); Furness, Louise Brooks Winsor (donor) (copy 2); Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889 (autograph, London, April 1871) (copy 2)

Publisher:

Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstones Churchyard vnder the Diall

Subject:

English fiction

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

books

Physical Description:

72 unnumbered pages; (4to)

Related Place:

England -- London.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Volume is mostly in verse.; Printer's name from STC.; Signatures: A-I⁴.; Online version available via Colenda; Furness copy 1 very defective. Leaves A1-4, E3-4, H1-4, I1-4 wanting. Title and imprint from Bartlett and Pollard, A census of Shakespeare's play in quarto, 1594-1709.; Furness copy 1 possibly a gift to the Shakspere Society of Philadelphia from J.O. Halliwell (later Halliwell-Phillipps).; Furness copy 2 has imprint date cut out by the binder Francis Bedford for Halliwell-Phillipps, to be used in another copy he owned, currently at Edinburgh University. Based upon information provided by Dr. Zachary Lesser (University of Pennsylvania).

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PR2750 .A32 1631 copy 2; Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Furness Collection, PR2750 .A32 1631

Collection:

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania); Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania); English Renaissance in Context Collection (University of Pennsylvania)