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With #TheTamingoftheShrew officially opening this evening, we’d thought we’d delve in to the history of Shakespeare’s tricky, tempestuous comedy.
Here’s 10 Things You May Not Know About Shrew…
Here’s 10 Things You May Not Know About Shrew…
As with most of Shakespeare’s plays, it’s difficult to assign a precise date to #TheTamingoftheShrew, but we believe it was written and performed between 1590 and 1592, making it one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies when he was but a youth.
We know #TheTamingoftheShrew was definitely written by June 1594, as this is its first recorded performance – staged when Shakespeare’s company were in residence in a playhouse in Newington Butts (near today’s Elephant and Castle station). 
