Synopsis

First comes the Induction showing how a drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, is made to believe himself a lord for whose entertainment a play is to be presented. Second comes the principle plot of the play performed for Sly, in which the shrewish Katherine is wooed, won and tamed by the fortune-hunting Petruccio. The third strand of the play involves Lucentio, Gremio, and Hortensio, all of them suitor's for the hand of Katherine's sister, Bianca.