... were the king of England, the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries offered few ways out of an unhappy marriage. Therefore, the resolution of marital disputes became an important topic in the popular literature of the era. Shakespeare highlights the theme of marriage, in particular the role of the woman in the marriage, in The Taming of the Shrew. It is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays and has weathered well into our modern era. Like his other romantic comedies, The Taming of the Shrew focuses ... on courtship and marriage and the various roles that the man and ... ...

• Word Count: 1693
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

William Shakespeare's play "The taming of the shrew" is a lighthearted, slapstick comedy written in the 1590's. This particular era is classified as the Elizabethan era. This famous play has been chiefly based on courtship and the concerns of married life. Both of these characteristics were profoundly relevant to society at this time, in fact this was a society concerned with marriage in general. People living in this ... being brought from wildness into a domesticated or tractable state." This idea of one "taming a shrew" is brought out through the main plot of the willful Kate and the equall...

• Word Count: 2023
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... good. Kiss Me, Kate is said to have two different origins, some say that it was created in response to the production of The Taming of the Shrew others say that it was Taming of the Shrew in a musical version. The finished version of the show combines the two ideas. The album for the show was much more successfull then the actual show. "Kiss Me, Kate is a show we love not despite its sloppy realism and irrelevant hunks ... of Shakespeare but because the score is so good that the rest doesn't matter." This show never had a New York revival. (260) The last play ... ...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School