THE

PLAY S

O F

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

VOLUME the THIRD,

CONTAINING,

The TAMING of the SHREW.

The COMEDY of ERRORS.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

ALL's WELL, THAT ENDS WELL.
The LIFE and DEATH of KING JOHN.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. TONSON, C. CORBET, H. WOODFALL,
J. RIVINGTON, R. BALDWIN, L. HAWES, CLARK and
COLLINS, W. JOHNSTON, T. CASLON, T. LowNDs,
and the Executors of B. DODD.

M,DCC,LXV.

Characters in the Induction.

A

Hoftefs.

Lord, before whom the Play is fuppos'd to be play’d.
Christopher Sly, a drunken Tinker.

Page, Players, Huntsmen, and other Servants attending on the Lord.

Dramatis Perfonæ.

Baptifta, Father to Catharina and Bianca; very rich. Vincentio, an old Gentleman of Pifa.

Lucentio, Son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca. Petruchio, a Gentleman of Verona, a Suitor to Catharina.

Gremio, } Pretenders to Bianca.

Hortenfio,

Tranio, } Servants to Lucentio.

Biondello,

Grumio, Servant to Petruchio.

Pedant, an old fellow fet up to perfonate Vincentio.

Catharina, the Shrew.

Bianca, her Sifter.
Widow.

Taylor, Haberdashers; with Servants attending on
Baptifta and Petruchio.

SCENE, fometimes in Padua; and fometimes in Petruchio's Houfe in the Country.

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