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- THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
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- Additional Passages
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- The Taming of A Shrew, printed in 1594 and believed to derive from
- ShakespeareÆs play as performed, contains episodes continuing and
- rounding off the Christopher Sly framework which may echo passages
- written by Shakespeare but not printed in the Folio. They are given below.
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- Additional Passage A
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- The following exchange occurs at a point for which there is no exact
- equivalent in ShakespeareÆs play. It could come at the end of 2.1. The
- ôfoolö of the first line is Sander, the counterpart of Grumio.
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- (Then Sly speaks)
- l1l Sly Sim, when will the fool come again?
- l2l Lord HeÆll come again, my lord, anon.
- l3l Sly Gi Æs some more drink here. Zounds, whereÆs the
- l4l tapster? Here, Sim, eat some of these things.
- l5l Lord So I do, my lord.
- l6l Sly Here, Sim, I drink to thee.
- l7l Lord My lord, here comes the players again.
- l8l Sly O brave, hereÆs two fine gentlewomen.
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- Additional Passage B
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- This passage comes between 4.5 and 4.6. If it originates with Shakespeare it
- implies that Grumio accompanies Petruccio at the beginning of 4.6.
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- l1l Sly Sim, must they be married now?
- l2l Lord Ay, my lord.
- (Enter Ferando and Kate and Sander)
- l3l Sly Look, Sim, the fool is come again now.
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- Additional Passage C
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- Sly interrupts the action of the play-within-play. This is at 5.1.102 of
- ShakespeareÆs play.
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- (Phylotus and Valeria runs away. Then Sly speaks)
- l1l Sly I say weÆll have no sending to prison.
- l2l Lord My lord, this is but the play. TheyÆre but in jest.
- l3l Sly I tell thee, Sim, weÆll have no sending to prison, thatÆs
- l4l flat. Why, Sim, am not I Don Christo Vary? Therefore I
- l5l say they shall not go to prison.
- l6l Lord No more they shall not, my lord. They be run away.
- l7l Sly Are they run away, Sim? ThatÆs well. Then gi Æs some
- l8l more drink, and let them play again.
- l9l Lord Here, my lord.
- (Sly drinks and then falls asleep)
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- Additional Passage D
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- Sly is carried off between 5.1 and 5.2.
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- (Exeunt omnes)
- (Sly sleeps)
- l1l Lord WhoÆs within there? Come hither, sirs, my lordÆs
- l2l Asleep again. Go take him easily up
- l3l And put him in his own apparel again,
- l4l And lay him in the place where we did find him
- l5l Just underneath the alehouse side below.
- l6l But see you wake him not in any case.
- l7l Boy It shall be done, my lord. Come help to bear him hence.
- (Exeunt)
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- Additional Passage E
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- The conclusion.
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- (Then enter two bearing of Sly in his own apparel again and leaves him
- where they found him and then goes out. Then enter the Tapster)
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- l1l Tapster Now that the darksome night is overpast
- l2l And dawning day appears in crystal sky,
- l3l Now must I haste abroad. But soft, whoÆs this?
- l4l What, Sly! O wondrous, hath he lain here all night?
- l5l IÆll wake him. I think heÆs starved by this,
- l6l But that his belly was so stuffed with ale.
- l7l What ho, Sly, awake, for shame!
- l8l Sly Sim, gi Æs some more wine. What, Æs all the players
- l9l gone? Am not I a lord?
- l10l Tapster A lord with a murrain! Come, art thou drunken still?
- l11l Sly WhoÆs this? Tapster? O Lord, sirrah, I have had
- l12l The bravest dream tonight that ever thou
- l13l Heardest in all thy life.
- l14l Tapster Ay, marry, but you had best get you home,
- l15l For your wife will course you for dreaming here tonight.
- l16l Sly Will she? I know now how to tame a shrew.
- l17l I dreamt upon it all this night till now,
- l18l And thou hast waked me out of the best dream
- l19l That ever I had in my life. But IÆll to my
- l20l Wife presently and tame her too,
- l21l An if she anger me.
- l22l Tapster Nay, tarry, Sly, for IÆll go home with thee
- l23l And hear the rest that thou hast dreamt tonight.
- (Exeunt omnes)
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