The Taming of a Shrew: Upon Which Shakespeare Founded His Comedy, Reprinted From the Edition of 1594, and Collated With the Subsequent Editions of 1596 and 1607 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Garrick, and placed on it by.him at Drury Lane in 1 754, served as an amusing substitute for Shakespeare's Comedy during ninety years, WW and female, being always coveted by popular and distin guished performers. An attempt was however made, in 1 828, at Drury Lane Theatre, to restore the double plots to the stage in the form of an Opera, written by Rey nolds: it was played but four nights; and it remained for the present lessee of the Haymarket Theatre to bring before the public, in March last, Shakespeare's Comedy with its genuine text. A very valuable mem ber of the Council of the Shakespeare Society, Mr. Planché, was principally instrumental in this revival, in the form in which it was conceived to have been exhi bited at the Globe or Blackfriars' Theatre in the life time of its author. The scene was not changed during the whole performance, and the characters in the Induc tion, the Lord, his Page, and Christopher Sly, remained on the stage as audience. The play proved successful, and; being frequently repeated, was understood to have remunerated the lessee for his novel undertaking.

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