Everything ever written is a retelling of Taming of the Shrew, except for the short story in the “Conde Lucanor” series by an Spanish writer of the 14th century called “De lo que aconteció a un mozo que casó con una muchacha de muy mal carácter” (About what happened to a boy who married a girl of very bad nature).
“The Taming of the Shrew” is a retelling of that short story…
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If you ask Michael Chabon, all literature from the Aeneid onward is fanfiction.
I have my doubts about the Epic of Gilgamesh to be honest…
FYI, I was drinking coffee when I read that. That may have been a strategic error.
The stories are very similar! Or so I think, because I participated in a play adapting “Conde Lucanor” in high school in about 1993 or so, and I saw Moonlighting’s version of “Taming of the Shrew” in the 80’s… my sources are not precisely at PhD tesis levels…
The Simpsons did it first.
So I collect these historical-people dolls. It started with Nikola Tesla and went from there. Mr. Rilch was asking me which ones I still don’t have, and I had my Phoebe moment. “Little Thinkers – OMG, I just now got that!”
The Taming of the Shrew is also a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare plagiarized it off of himself.
“Everything ever written” includes “The taming of the Shrew”.
Yup, that was my point. The ontology of the story is a deep philosophical mystery, since there was never actually a first telling, only retellings.
Borges would’ve written a great story out of that.
Eh, Borges already beat him to it.
Not before Borges though…
What about The Shrewing of the Tame?
The one by Edmund Wells, or the one by Pierre Ménard?
(ETA: I just saw how Python fans have humorously, harmlessly vandalized sites like Goodreads with Edmund Wells book descriptions. How very Borges — like the encyclopedia volume in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.”)
Wait! Are you saying that Stickley Stapers with four M’s and a silent Q isn’t real?
I didn’t know Saul Zaentz had represented Shakespeare.
It’s shrews all the way down.
Now that I think of it, that would point to Robert Heinlein as the original original author, in the first timeline at least…