The taming of the shrew Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW INDUCTION SCENE I.—Before an Alehouse on a Heath. Enter HOSTESS and SLY. Sly. I 'll pheeze you, in faith. Host. A pair of sto... more »cks, you rogue ! Induction] Pope; Actus primus. Scsena Prima Ff, Q. They divide play into Acts but not into Scenes, omitting to mark Induction and Act II., and distributing remainder thus—Act iII. (III. i.-iv. ii.); Act IV. (1v. iii.-v. i.); Act V. (v. ii.). Here as Steevens and following Editors. Scene I. Before . .' . heath] Theobald. No localities marked Ff, Q. Enter . . . Sly] Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly Ff, Q. I. Sly] Begger Ff, Q. Induction. Sc. I. Before an Alehouse . . . and Sly] The alehouse is implied in the stage-direction of the old play, '' Enter a Tapster beating out of his doores Slie Droonken " ; and specified in the Lord's direction, just before the last scene of that play, to " lay him in the place where we did find him, Just vnderneath the alehouse side below." The same near neighbourhood of alehouse and mansion is implied in our play by the Players' trumpet. Sly was a common name in Stratford and its locality, but not confined to that district (Sidney Lee, Life, p. 165 n.). Mr. F. A. Marshall (Henry Irving Shakespeare) notes that the 285 lines of Shakespeare's Induction exhibit only fourteen sentences practically the same as in that of the old play (147 lines), some being of only two or three words ; while there is no absolutely identical line, and only one common characteristic expression (" pheeze you "). See, however, my note on sc. ii. lines 37-62. I. pheeze] or feeze, drive away, beat, or (vaguely) "do for"; Sly probably echoing the Hostess' threat. Again, TroihisandCressida, II. iii. 215, "I 'll pheeze his pride." Cf. Stanyhurst's translation of Virgil, ed. Arber, p. 3I, " ...« less