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The Millennium Players Bring A Modern Adaptation Of John Fletcher’s Jacobean Comic Drama, The Tamer Tamed, To Audiences This July.

 

The Tamer Tamed (also known as The Woman’s Prize) is a Jacobean comedy by John Fletcher and a riposte to Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew in which a woman is humiliated and cowed by her husband.

In this play reversal of fortunes very much order of the day with the misogynistic Petruchio from Shakespeare’s original play now married to his second wife, Maria, and finding the tables very much turned and the tamer tamed as the battle of the sexes is played out among other things with a collective women’s sex strike.

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