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• Taming of the Shrew — Taming of the Shrew, The a humorous play by William Shakespeare about a woman called Kate. Kate is very honest and always tells people exactly what she thinks, and because of this some people think she is rude and unpleasant. But she eventually… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Taming of the Shrew, The — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare. * * * ▪ work by Shakespeare       comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William), written sometime in 1590–94 and first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The play describes the volatile… …   Universalium

• Shrew — Taxobox name = ShrewsMSW3 Hutterer | pages = 223 300] fossil range = Middle Eocene to Recent image width = 250px image caption = Southern Short tailed Shrew regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Soricomorpha familia =… …   Wikipedia

• Taming of the Shrew — a comedy play (c. 1594) by Shakespeare. It is about Petruchio, a young Italian man who wants to marry Katharina, a rich but unfriendly woman. (Shrew is an old fashioned word for a bad tempered woman.) She behaves unpleasantly to him but he… …   Universalium

• shrew —    Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has probably helped to keep this word alive, and to associate it almost exclusively with women.    In Shakespeare’s own time it could equally well be applied to a man, one who was felt to be malignant, but …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• shrew — noun /ʃɹuː/ a) Any of numerous small mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae. One of Shakespeare’s plays is The Taming of the Shrew b) An ill tempered, nagging woman: a scold. Syn: ranny …   Wiktionary