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PLEASE NOTE. As of June 2004 these pages and the links herein are no longer being updated or maintained. Disclaimer : Oakland Unified School District is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Book Description: You expect the first scene of a play
to give you an idea of what the play is going to be about. However,
the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew tells you nothing
at all about Katherina and Petruchio or Bianca and Lucentio, but
begins with a tinker, or mender of household utensils, named Christopher
Sly. When you first meet Christopher Sly, he is quarreling drunkenly
with the owner of an inn where he's broken some glasses. His first
speech, "I'll feeze you, in faith," is just like our saying,
"I'll fix you for this." But he doesn't seem likely to
carry out his threat, because he falls asleep on the ground as soon
as the woman has gone to fetch the "third-borough," the
Warwickshire equivalent of a sheriff. More...
(Barron's Educational Series, Inc.; ) Booknotes on The Taming of the Shrew:
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