La méchante femme mise à la raison by William Shakespeare
"La méchante femme mise à la raison" by William Shakespeare is a comedy probably written in 1594. In Padua, Baptista struggles to marry his eldest daughter Catharina, who has a terrible temper, before he can marry off her gentle younger sister Bianca. Enter Petruchio, a gentleman seeking a wealthy wife. He agrees to marry Catharina and begins to "tame" her through unusual methods. Meanwhile, multiple suitors compete for Bianca's hand. The play
concludes with a wager among three husbands over whose wife is most obedient. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
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| Translator | Guizot, François, 1787-1874 |
| Uniform Title | Taming of the shrew. French |
| Title |
La méchante femme mise à la raison Comédie |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_M%C3%A9g%C3%A8re_apprivois%C3%A9e |
| Credits |
Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Comedy plays |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | Married people -- Drama |
| Subject | Sex role -- Drama |
| Subject | Padua (Italy) -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 19219 |
| Release Date | Sep 8, 2006 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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