Information on the Play

• Synopsis
• Characters

Scholarly Articles on the Play

• How Many Ways to Tame a Shrew?
• Look More Closely at the Period
• Were Shakespeare's Heroines Liberated?
• Male Chauvinism?
• Laughter and Beyond
• The Affirmation of Affection
• Shakespeare on the Sly
• Where Two Raging Fires Meet

Classroom Helps

• Examining the Text
• Vocabulary
• Famous Lines
• Elementary School Study Guide
• High School Discussion Questions
• Synopsis for Student Audiences
• Shakespeare's Language
• References from Shakespeare's Time and Place
• Allusion in Shakespeare
• Other Literary Devices
• Evolving English
• Folded Paper Brainstorming
• More Discussion Questions
• Classroom Activities

Information on William Shakespeare 

• Shakespeare: Words, Words, Words
• Not of an Age, but for All Mankind
• Elizabeth's England
• History Is Written by the Victors
• Mr. Shakespeare, I Presume
• A Nest of Singing Birds
• Actors in Shakespeare's Day
• Audience: A Very Motley Crowd
• Shakespearean Snapshots
• Ghosts, Witches, and Shakespeare
• What They Wore

The Entire Study Guide

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