The Master of the Revels, Sir Henry Herbert, recorded a performance before the King and Queen at St James’s Palace on 26 November 1633, followed two days later by John Fletcher’s sequel The Tamer Tamed. The Admiral’s Men and the LordĬhamberlain’s Men were there at that time, so Henslowe may have been referring to Shakespeare’s play.
Henslowe’s Diary records that ‘the tamynge of A Shrowe’ was among the plays performed at Newington Butts in June 1594. There are virtually no records of performances of The Taming of the Shrew. Tragedy, for which the earliest recorded performance is inġ592, although Kyd’s play was probably written between 1587Ĭonceited Historie, Called the Taming of a Shrew, 1596. Of the Shrew quotes from Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Taming of the Shrew, with assistance from an unknown writer,Īnd was probably written in 1592.
It appears to be a memorial reconstruction by actors of The Thought of as a ‘bad’ quarto of Shakespeare’s The 1594 edition of The Taming of A Shrew is now generally Register in 1594 and printed the same year. The Taming of the Shrew must be dated in relation to theĪnonymous play The Taming of A Shrew, entered on the Stationers’ The available evidence supports a very earlyĭate for the play’s creation, and 1590-1591 is often suggested. Which would make it not only Shakespeare’s first comedy butĪlso his first play.
The Taming of the Shrew has been dated as early as 1589, Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare in quarto
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