![]() Lucentio, son of a wealthy Pisan named Vincentio, has arrived in the university town of Padua to pursue his education. Sly, after some protest, decides he must indeed be a lord, and watches the show as if it were performed in his honor. A troupe of actors have stopped at the Lord's house to put on a performance, and they unwittingly become part of the ruse as well. The Lord's Page plays the part of the wife, overjoyed to see that her husband has finally recovered from a dire fifteen-year illness due to which he had been under the impression he was a beggar. When he awakes, the Lord's attendants refer to him as to a nobleman. Sly is carried to the Lord's bedchamber and decked in lavish attire. A Lord passing by notices Sly and decides to play a trick on him. ![]() The larger framework involves a drunkard named Christopher Sly, who stumbles out of an inn and falls into a deep sleep. The Taming of the Shrew is in fact a play within a play. ![]()
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