Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU English Faculty Publications English Department Spring 4-1-2009 The Anachronistic Shrews James J. Marino Cleveland State University,
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[email protected]. THE ANACHRONISTIC SHREWS 25 The Anachronistic Shrews James J. Marino I. Sincklo Recalls Soto he First Folio text of The Taming of the Shrew has not yet gone a hundred Tlines when it reaches a serious crux—a single line of type that recalls two distinct and distant moments in the long company history of the King’s Men. The Lord in the Sly material, greeting the visiting players, singles one out for praise: Lord This fellow I remember, Since once he plaide a Farmers eldest sonne, ’Twas where you woo’d the Gentlewoman so well: I haue forgot your name: but sure that part Was aptly fitted, and naturally perform’d. (TLN 93–97) 1 The reply, with its speech prefix, provides the crux: Sincklo I thinke ’twas Soto that your honor meanes.