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Christopher Sly
Christopher Sly is a minor character in William Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew.'' He is a drunken peddlar who is easily dominated by women, set up as a foil to Petruchio, the central male character in the play.
==Role==
''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a play within a play. The frame play, where the action opens (called the "Induction," just prior to Act One), shows a drunk Christopher Sly being ejected from a bar by its hostess. A wealthy lord arrives, finds Sly in a drunken stupor, and decides to play a joke on him. With Sly asleep in his intoxication, the lord's men dress Sly in fine apparel and the men in turn dress up as servants and one even as Sly's wife, in an effort to persuade Sly when he wakes up that he is an aristocrat. After this is accomplished the lord’s men perform what we know as ''The Taming of the Shrew''. He briefly is seen again making a comment about having some privacy with his "wife" (actually a pageboy in drag).
In the standard version of the play the audience never sees or hears from Christopher Sly again and thus assume that he has probably fallen asleep. Another version has a closing segment in which Sly, deposited back outside the tavern in a stupor once more, says he will return home to deal with his own shrewish wife, having had "the best dream that ever I had in my life" in which he learned how to "tame a shrew". The closing part of the frame-play does not appear in the text of ''The Taming'' as it was published in the First Folio. It only appears in the version published in quarto as ''The Taming of a Shrew'' (rather than "the" Shrew).
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