Excerpt from Shakespeare's: Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew It is one of the most interesting of the plays from the fact that it is not wholly Shakespeare's, and that we have the earlier comedy - itself, in all probability, the work of two hands - from which he took the main incidents of the plot, as well as some minor details of the action and occasionally the very phraseology. In the Notes I have quoted more of this old play than any other editor has given (except halliwell-phillipps, who reprints the whole of it in his great folio edition), in order that the reader may see just how Shakespeare has made use of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.