| Description | 'The Taming of the Shrew' by William Shakespeare. “Midget” classics, Burgess & Bowes, [1964]. The book measures 5.7 cm wide by 8.2 cm tall and is in a slipcase. Flyleaf inscribed ‘“Why, Here’s a Wench,” My love Michael’ and in a different hand ‘Williams’. Janet Suzman played Katharina and Michael Williams played Petruchio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1967. Date taken from 'A Shakespeare Bibliography: the catalogue of the Birmingham Shakespeare Library', 1971. Volume 4, page 184. |