Grofessor On Fronald,

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SHAKESPEARE'S PART

IN

"The Taming of the Shrew."

A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE PHILOSOPHICAL FACULTY OF
THE KAISER-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITY, STRASSBURG, FOR THE
DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.

BY

ALBERT H. TOLMAN,

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND RHETORIC, RIPON COLLEGE, RIPON,
WISCONSIN, U. S. A.

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HARVARD COLLEGE

MAR. 16, 1921

LIBRARY

Dr. Walter Jaxon.

VON DER FACULTÄT GENEHMIGT
AM 27 JULI, 1889.

TO MY HONORED TEACHER,

PROFESSOR DR. B. TEN BRINK.

Introduction.....

Table of Contents.

I. Sources of The Taming of the Shrew (TTS.).......

A. Direct Sources of TTS.

The Taming of a swiew
a.(TAS)and The Supposes are direct sources of TTS.

and the most important ones-unless TAS. and
TTS. have a common source in an earlier ver-
sion of TTS., a work of SHAKESPEARE'S youth.
1. Outline of the story of The Supposes of the
story of TAS., and of that of TTS...

2. The Date of TAS.......

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3. The Date of TTS.

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4. The Relation of TAS. to The Supposes..... 20

5. The Relation of TTS. to The Supposes..... 21 6. Is TAS. one source of TTS.?...

7. The Theory of PROFESSOR TENBRINK........... b. Less Important Works that may be direct sources

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of TAS.

B. Remoter Sources of TTS..

a. Of the Induction.....

b. Of the Bianca Intrigue.

c. Of the Taming Process..

d. Of the Wager Episode..

II. The Authorship of TAS..........

III. SHAKESPEARE'S Part in TTS..

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