Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream, the Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Book Overview

The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills-and love-with her bridegroom,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553212818
• ISBN13: 9780553212815
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.6" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Four Comedies

This book contains the four "best" comedies of Shakespeare, along with an excellent foreword by Joseph Papp. For each play, it contains a very well written introduction (one that is not only on the play, but links each of them together), Shakespeare's original source material (example: "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel's Skin" for "the Taming of the Shrew"), and well commented textual notes. I found this collection particularly useful for an "upper-level" look at these four plays.

Very classic, humorous veiw of shakespeare's funny side.

Very classic, humourous veiw of shakespeare