The Taming of the Shrew: 30 (Complete Works of William Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Shakespeare, William

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798259509290

Publisher: Clearview Editions, 2026

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An anonymous quarto with an almost identical plot and title - The Taming of A Shrew - appeared in print in 1594, and untangling its relationship to Shakespeare's own play remains one of the most contested puzzles in Shakespeare studies: source, early draft, pirated copy, or imitation, scholars still do not agree which.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is the one author whose place in a library's classics holdings requires no argument, but it is worth stating plainly why: no other writer's vocabulary, plot structures, and character types have been so thoroughly absorbed into English that readers encounter him before they know they are reading him. His canonical weight has never made him a closed text. Each generation restages him against its own concerns - colonialism in The Tempest, consent and coercion in Measure for Measure, the ethics of the taming plot in The Shrew - and university and community-theater productions alike keep finding new grounds for the argument. That argument is part of why he belongs on an active shelf rather than a monument shelf.The inclusion case here is less about representation than access. Shakespeare is assigned, quoted, and performed constantly, and low-vision and aging patrons are routinely locked out of the very texts their book clubs and grandchildren are reading, because standard editions run small type with dense verse-line spacing. This Clearview Editions large-print printing - 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, ragged-right, no word-division - makes the actual verse legible at a size that does not exist in most library Shakespeare holdings, without resorting to a simplified retelling.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clearview Editions
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798259509290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256