The Taming Of The Shrew Context

Context

• When written: Early 1590's
• Where written: England
• When published: 1623
• Literary period: English Renaissance
• Genre: Elizabethan comedy
• Setting: Padua - Petruchio's country home / England - Home of Sly

Shakespeare's father was a glove-maker, and Shakespeare received no more than a grammar school education. He married Anne Hathaway in 1582, but left his family behind around 1590 and moved to London, where he became an actor and playwright. He was…