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Taming of the Shrew
The plot was borrowed from a drama of the same title, published
by S. Leacroft, of Charing Cross, under the title of Six Old Plays
on which Shakespeare Founded his Comedies. The induction was
borrowed from Heuterus' Rerum Burgumdarum (lib. iv.), a
translation of which was published in 1607 by
E. Grimstone, and called Admirable and Memorable Histories. Dr. Percy thinks that the ballad of The Frolicksome Duke, or the
Tinker's Good Fortune, published in the Pepys Collection, may have
suggested the induction. (See Sly.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Taming of the Shrew from Infoplease:
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