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For 211 years, the only version of this play performed was a David Garrick adaptation with a balcony for a Pedant. This play’s events are imagined as “the best dream that ever I had in my life” by a drunkard who is dressed in noble clothes. (20[3])A discussion of falconry (20[1])appears in this play in the same act that a woman (20[1])explains she was “bedazzled with the sun” when she mistook (20[1])(*) Vincentio for a maid. (10[2])“Fie (10[1])fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow” (10[1])opens this play’s last speech, which is responded to with the phrase “Come on and kiss me.” (10[2])A man who desires to “wive it wealthily in Padua” in this play is the abusive (10[2])Petruchio. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[3])Katherina is controversially (10[2])made (10[3])“more obedient” (10[1])to her husband (10[2])in what play by William Shakespeare? (10[4])■END■

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