The Taming of the Shrew

     by William Shakespeare


Dramatis Personae

   Persons in the Induction
 A LORD
 CHRISTOPHER SLY, a tinker
 HOSTESS
 PAGE
 PLAYERS
 HUNTSMEN
 SERVANTS

 BAPTISTA MINOLA, a gentleman of Padua
 VINCENTIO, a Merchant of Pisa
 LUCENTIO, son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca
 PETRUCHIO, a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to Katherina

   Suitors to Bianca
 GREMIO
 HORTENSIO

   Servants to Lucentio
 TRANIO
 BIONDELLO

   Servants to Petruchio
 GRUMIO
 CURTIS

 A PEDANT

   Daughters to Baptista
 KATHERINA, the shrew
 BIANCA

 A WIDOW

 Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending on Baptista and Petruchio

 

Introduction
   Scene 1 Before an alehouse on a heath
   Scene 2 A bedchamber in the LORD'S house

Act I
   Scene 1 Padua. A public place
   Scene 2 Padua. Before HORTENSIO'S house

Act II
   Scene 1 Padua. BAPTISTA'S house

Act III
   Scene 1 Padua. BAPTISTA'S house
   Scene 2 Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house

Act IV
   Scene 1 PETRUCHIO'S country house
   Scene 2 Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house
   Scene 3 PETRUCHIO'S house
   Scene 4 Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house
   Scene 5 A public road

Act V
   Scene 1 Padua. Before LUCENTIO'S house
   Scene 2 LUCENTIO'S house