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The Taming of the Shrew - Setting

The play is set in the Italian city of Padua. This is a fairly wealthy city where wealth and making money is very important. Many of the characters are wealthy. Interestingly, in the film version of the play we see that there are also a lot of poor people in Padua. Accordingly, Padua seems to be a good setting for showing off the poor behaviour of wealthy and powerful people. Padua seems to be a place where people come to in order to make more wealth.