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    The shrew – an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterised by scolding, nagging, and aggression – is a comedic, stock character in literature and folklore...
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  • Shrew (stock character), a difficult woman The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, in which the word refers to a difficult woman. The Shrews,...
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  • unpleasant, belligerent, bossy woman; essentially synonymous with shrew (stock character) Miss Harridan, the main antagonist of the 2003 comedy film Daddy...
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    Tsundere (category Female stock characters in anime and manga)
    manga Hawksian woman Love-hate relationship Queen bee (sociology) Shrew (stock character) "In Tokyo's Akihabara district there is reportedly a tsundere café...
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    A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional...
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  • Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung (category Operas based on The Taming of the Shrew)
    Zähmung (also: Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung) (English: The Taming of the Shrew) is a German-language comic opera in four acts by the German composer Hermann...
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    April 2021. "Search | RSC Performances | TAM196704 - The Taming of the Shrew | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust". collections.shakespeare.org.uk. Retrieved...
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  • Termagant (category Stock characters)
    violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, vixen. In the past, the word could be applied to any person or thing personified...
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    Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Dr. Faustus, and The Taming of the Shrew at the American Shakespeare Festival, and later on Broadway. He performed...
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  • a journey to find information, Matthias met the Guosim Shrews, a tribe of argumentative shrews who told him to speak to a large snowy owl named Captain...
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  • Cleese in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Taming of the Shrew. In the 1990s, he appeared as The Major-General (Stanley) in a production...
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  • Othello, Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew. During those years, film roles that went beyond stock characters were few and far between, notable exceptions...
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  • is a character in the MC2 universe who first appeared in J2 #8 (May 1999). He is the half-brother of Wild Thing and son of Wolverine. The character has...
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  • griping, illiberal, avid, tenacious, pinchfist, a sordid lickpenny and a shrew". It is hard to see any likeness of the mother in the daughter. Despite...
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    Lights, Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, and William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale. While at Yale, she won the Herschel Williams Prize...
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  • finds handsome and kind. Jeannie II surveils and intervenes. She conjures a shrew of a counterfeit wife to come in, berate the man for infidelity, and call...
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    discovered; and he adopted the nomen "Maccius" (from Maccus, a clownish stock character in Atellan Farce) and agnomen "Plautus" ("trampled flat", usually in...
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  • that the inspiration for the series was a production of The Taming of the Shrew he saw in Central Park starring Meryl Streep and Raúl Julia. The show parodied...
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    mammals found in Greater London are hedgehog, brown rat, mice, rabbit, shrew, vole, and grey squirrel. In wilder areas of Outer London, such as Epping...
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  • subjugation of a wilful woman, The Sheik has been compared to The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Criticism of the novel has been tempered, however...
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  • Josh McCrary, and Phil LaMarr voice a guineafowl, a bushbaby, an elephant shrew, and an impala, respectively, Timon and Pumbaa's neighbors in the oasis...
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  • Barnet, Sylvan (1998) [1966]. "The Shrew on Stage and Screen". In Heilman, Robert B. (ed.). The Taming of the Shrew. Signet Classic Shakespeare (Second...
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    when he appeared in a supporting role in a broadcast of The Taming of the Shrew on KECA in Los Angeles, California. Four years later, a newspaper reported...
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    Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Summer Stock plays The Taming of the Shrew (1947) Born Yesterday (1950) Wedding Breakfast (1955) A Piece...
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    venture, playing Petruchio and Kate in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1929). This film, and his subsequent sound films, were poorly received...
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  • kindness" (implied to be a reference to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew). Jodie proposes to Carol, to take responsibility as the father of their...
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  • Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet. He played Gremio in The Taming of the Shrew. Midway through the tour, Jaffrey returned to Washington DC from Miami to...
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    Scold's bridle, metal frame around head, with bit to hold down tongue Shrew's fiddle, board around neck and wrists Patibular fork The stocks were never...
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    in 1910. Although she appeared in classics including The Taming of the Shrew and The Seagull, experimental drama by Eugene O'Neill, and dark comedy by...
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    Askeladden (category Fairy tale stock characters)
    "Espen Oskeladd") is a main character in a number of tales collected in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norwegian Folktales. The character starts out being regarded...
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