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In one of Shakespeare's bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry.

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Selected by the Association of American University Presses for Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2006 Selected by the Association of American University Presses as an Outstanding Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2005 Featured by the American Library Association as one of the “Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books you should know about”

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Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cliges, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human and Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?

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