This week, I reviewed Advice To The Players’ production of “Taming of the Shrew.” In my research, I was surprised to discover that there was an unofficial sequel written by John Fletcher called “The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed.”
Written in 1647, approximately 50 years after Shakespeare’s original play, it focused on a widowed Petruchio marrying a woman that flips the tables on him. Hence, the tamer becomes the tamed.
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