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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.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Collection PR2750 .A32 1631 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Taming of the shrew
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction.
- Penn 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)
- Physical Description:
- 72 unnumbered pages ; (4to)
- Other Title:
- Taming of the shrew
- The taming of the shrew.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by W[illiam] S[tansby] for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstones Churchyard vnder the Diall, 1631.
- Notes:
- Volume is mostly in verse.
- Printer's name from STC.
- Signatures: A-I⁴.
- Online version available via Colenda https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qv3c958
- Also available in an online edition
- Local Notes:
- 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).
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 22327
- Greg, I, 120(e)
- ESTC (RLIN), S111180
- Bartlett and Pollanrd. Census, 107
- OCLC:
- 228714717
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