Taming of the Shrew Literary Elements

The Taming of the Shrew is set in Padua (called Padova in Italian).

According to Wikipedia,

Padua (Italian: Padova [ˈpaːdova] Latin: Patavium, Venetian: Padoa, Ancient German: Esten) is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area.

Padua stands on the Bacchiglione River, 40 km west of Venice and 29 km southeast of Vicenza. The Brenta River, which once ran through the city, still touches the northern districts. Its agricultural setting is the Venetian Plain (Pianura Veneta). To the city's south west lies the Euganaean Hills, praised by Lucan and Martial, Petrarch, Ugo Foscolo, and Shelley. It hosts the renowned University of Padua, almost 800 years old and famous, among other things, for having had Galileo Galilei among its lecturers.

The city is picturesque, with a dense network of arcaded streets opening into large communal piazze, and many bridges crossing the various branches of the Bacchiglione, which once surrounded the ancient walls like a moat.

Padua is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.
- Wikipedia

Here are some images to give you a sense of the City of Padua during the Renaissance (many of these structures still exist today).


Here are some people in Italian Renaissance clothing, to give you an idea of how people would have dressed at that time, in that place: