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Padua

This is the setting of the play and the location where Baptista is a wealthy landowner.

Induction

This refers to an explanatory scene or framing device within a dramatic work that stands outside of the main action.

Dowry

This term refers to the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to a marriage. Baptista spends much time in the play haggling over this aspect of his daughters’ marriages and proposals.

Hat

The Haberdasher is commissioned to make this object for Kate.

Glasses

The Hostess scolds Christopher Sly for breaking these objects during his drunken revelry in the Induction.

Tavern

Christopher Sly is found by the Huntsmen sleeping outside of this establishment in the Induction.

Lombardy

This is Lucentio’s destination for expanding his horizons and for study when he decides to stop for a while in the play’s main setting.

Mantua

The Pedant who impersonates...

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