Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Today in Literary History


Shakespeare & Shrews
On this day in 1594, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew was entered in the Stationers' Register. Much of the main plot seems to come from a 1550 popular ballad called 'Here Begynneth a Merry Jest of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe, Lapped in Morrelles Skin, for her Good Behaviour.' By the endeth, this contribution to the shrew-taming canon was merry from only one perspective. . . .

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