Accompanied by a "Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory footnotes. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, vibrant work from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A Merry Jest of a Shrewd and Curst Wife Lapped in Morel’s Skin." "Criticism" offers a wide range of scholarly commentaries on Shakespeare's Taming from fifteen essays by Laurie Maguire, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bernard Shaw, Natasha Korda, Frances Dolan, Lynda E. Boose, Harold Bloom, Patricia Parker, Shirley Nelson Garner, Juliet Dusinberre, Marea Mitchell, Karen Newman, E. M. W. Tillyard and Jan Harold Brunvand. "Rewritings and Adaptations" gathers seven adaptations of Taming from the last four centuries, by John Fletcher, David Garrick, Cole Porter, and Charles Marawitz. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
