The author of The Taming of the Shrew was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare lived from around April 23, 1564 to April 23, 1616. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582 and together they had three children, two girls and a boy (who died at the age of twelve). He wrote thirty-seven plays. His last play, Henry VIII, was written two years before his death.
The Taming of the Shrew begins with the discovery of a drunkard, Christopher Sly. A local lord decides to play a prank on him and dresses him up and puts him in one of his own rooms. When Sly wakes up, the lord and his servants tell him that he has been insane the past few years and is really a lord. He doesn't believe them until he sees his "wife," who is really a pageboy dressed as a woman. The rest of the story is a play that the lord's actors put on for him. In this play, a young man named Lucentio arrives in Padua with his servants Tranio and Biondello. He plans to attend the local university until he meets a woman name Bianca, who he......

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Title: Book Report On "The Taming Of The Shrew"
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