The Taming of the Shrew
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The Taming of the Shrew

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The Taming of the Shrew

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty, the 'shrew' apparently capitulates. Or does she? Bianca is beautiful and demure, with a plethora of wood-be suitors, but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match. The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor. That is, until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio. As Katherina' s own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio' s feigned cruelty, the ' shrew' apparently capitulates. Or does she? This controversial comic tale, famously adapted into Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You, has divided and amused audiences for over 400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits. This controversial comic tale, famously adapted into Cole Porter' s Kiss Me Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You, has divided and amused audiences for over 400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits.

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Information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780007934430
eBook ISBN
9780007535262
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Shakespeare: Words and Phrases

adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

abate 1 VERB to abate here means to lessen or diminish
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There lives within the very flame of love/A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it (Hamlet 4.7) 2 VERB to abate here means to shorten
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Abate thy hours (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 3.2) 3 VERB to abate here means to deprive
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She hath abated me of half my train (King Lear 2.4)
abjure VERB to abjure means to renounce or give up
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this rough magic I here abjure (Tempest 5.1)
abroad ADV abroad means elsewhere or everywhere
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You have heard of the news abroad (King Lear 2.1)
abrogate VERB to abrogate means to put an end to
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so it shall praise you to abrogate scurrility (Love’s Labours Lost 4.2)
abuse 1 NOUN abuse in this context means deception or fraud
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What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?/Or is it some abuse, and no such thing? (Hamlet 4.7) 2 NOUN an abuse in this context means insult or offence
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I will be deaf to pleading and excuses/Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase our abuses (Romeo and Juliet 3.1) 3 NOUN an abuse in this context means using something improperly
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we’ll digest/Th’abuse of distance (Henry II Chorus) 4 NOUN an abuse in this context means doing something which is corrupt or dishonest
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Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but their abuses in common houses, I know no law: bring them away. (Measure for Measure 2.1)
abuser NOUN the abuser here is someone who betrays, a betrayer
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I … do attach thee/For an abuser of the world (Othello 1.2)
accent NOUN accent here means language
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In states unborn, and accents yet unknown (Julius Caesar 3.1)
accident NOUN an accident in this context is an event or something that happened
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think no more of this night’s accidents (A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4.1)
accommodate VERB to accommodate in this context means to equip or to give someone the equipment to do something
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The safer sense will ne’er accommodate/His master thus. (King Lear 4.6)
according ADJ according means sympathetic or ready to agree
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within the scope of choice/Lies my consent and fair according voice (Romeo and Juliet 1.2)
account NOUN account often means judgement (by God) or reckoning
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No reckoning made, but sent to my account/With all my imperfections on my head (Hamlet 1.5)
accountant ADJ accountant here means answerable or accountable
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his offence is … /Ac...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Prefatory Note
  4. The Theatre in Shakespeare’s Day
  5. Shakespeare: A Timeline
  6. Life & Times
  7. Money in Shakespeare’s Day
  8. Introduction
  9. List of Characters
  10. Induction
  11. Act One
  12. Act Two
  13. Act Three
  14. Act Four
  15. Act Five
  16. Shakespeare: Words and Phrases
  17. Copyright
  18. About the Publisher