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Further reading
'The Taming of the Scold’ by D.E. Underdown in Order and Disorder in Early Modern England ed. Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Clamorous Voices, Shakespeare’s Women Today by Carol Rutter with Sinead Cusack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walter edited by Faith Evans, The Woman’s Press Ltd, 1988.

Family Ties: English Families 1540 - 1920 by Mary Abbott, Routledge, 1993.

‘Petruchio’ by Michael Siberry in Players of Shakespeare 4 ed. Robert Smallwood, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dusinberre, 2nd edition, Macmillan, 1996.

The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977.

The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim, Sutton Publishing, 1996.

Untamed Shrew by Germaine Greer and Christine Wallace, Richard Cohen Books, 1997.

Women in Early Modern England by Sara Mendleson and Patricia Crawford, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Women in Shakespeare by Judith Cook, George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1980.

Background to Shakespeare
Shakespeare Court, Crowd and Playhouse, ed. Francois Laroque, Thames and Hudson, 1993.

The World of Shakespeare by Anna Claybourne and Rebecca Treays, Usborne Publishing Limited 1996.

William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life by S. Schoenbaum, Oxford University Press, 1987.

Useful websites
Birmingham University provides a very useful site for those researching Shakespeare and his plays.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust holds the RSC archives as well as a huge collection of material on Shakespeare in performance.

The Royal Shakespeare Company website houses a collection of images and articles on number of plays and themes in Shakespeare as well as thousands of digitised images.

The British Shakespeare Association is a portal for academics, teachers, actors and interested Shakespeareans.