The Woman's Prize: Or the Tamer Tamed

The Woman’s Prize, or the Tamer Tamed is a Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher. It was first published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647, though it was written several decades earlier (Fletcher died in 1625). There is no doubt that the play is the work of Fletcher alone; his highly distinctive and characteristic pattern of linguistic preferences is continuous through the text. The play is a counterpart to Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, in which (as the subtitle indicates) the gender tables are turned and Petruchio the ”tamer” is ”tamed” by his second wife Maria, whom he marries after the death of Katherine, the ”shrew” in Shakespeare’s text. As a ”reply” to Shakespeare’s play, The Woman’s Prize attracted critical attention in later generations and centuries. Maria’s principal weapon, a refusal to consummate her marriage, shows the influence of Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata.

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