What you will do and learn:
-  Explore the roles of master vs. servant, husband vs. wife, actors and lovers in Elizabethan England and the Taming of the Shrew, and how these roles affect the games played on, by and to the characters.
- Explore the games and jokes played on and by the characters in William Shakespeare’s  The Taming of the Shrew, and the effects they have on the other characters in the play.

Study Guide's provide good overviews to and insights into the play.

 Encyclopedia of Britannica's Guide to Shakespeare - The many articles and special features explore the life of Shakespeare, the theater in which he produced his plays, and, of course, the plays themselves. Other highlights: Biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries, "A Chronology of the Shakespearean World," and a review of film interpretations of Shakespeare's work, including the movies of directors Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, and Baz Lurhmann.

Shakespeare and the Internet - Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is a complete annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet. Here you will find a Shakespeare timeline which gives the key events of Shakespeare's life and work along with related documentary evidence. On a sidebar you will find links to his works, life and times, theater, criticism, renaissance, sources educational best sites and other sites.

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust- The images that complement the essays and timelines at this site allow virtual visitors to peek at Shakespeare's birthplace, ponder the question of what the playwright actually looked like, and poke about his neighborhood. The site is more than an album of pretty pictures, however. Look for an outline of Shakespeare's life, brief summaries of each of his plays, and a short essay about Shakespeare as a sixteenth-century student, when "[s]choolboys had to endure a long, unvaried, taxing day, from Monday to Saturday, beginning at 6 or 7 in the morning and continuing until 5 or 6 in the evening."

Legends of Shakespeare's Stories - This site includes a Shakespeare Timeline, which gives the key events of his life and work with evidence. Visit the Shakespeare biography quiz if you are brave enough. Additional links include "The Shakespeare Canon" and "Tales from Shakespeare." Also included is a link to "The Complete works of William Shakespeare" and a "Shakespearean Grammar" in which a complete table of the contents of each paragraph has been prefixed and indexed.

The Shakespeare's Resource Center - The Shakespeare Resource Center web site provides bibliographical information, an overview of his works, links to online editions of his works with commentary, and summaries of his entire collection that are useful to struggling readers. You can also read Shakespeare's will and about the ongoing debate over authorship. Check out information about the Globe Theatre and Elizabethan times. Other features include a researchable glossary and links to other great Shakespeare sites.

Shakespeare's Net Field Trip - Take this internet field trip and learn all about Shakespeare. A good place to start the trip is at the "Shakespeare Timeline." Next, you might want to visit the "Sonnet" section, or the "Play" section. Or, of interest to you, might be "Shakespeare at the Movies" or "Shakespeare's Stratford."  Learn about The Globe, learn a little bit of London history, and learn a lot about Shakespeare.