The Taming of the Shrew & Tartuffe, The Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival poster

Contributed by Aubrey Hays, Frere-Jones Type


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Poster design by Paula Scher of Pentagram, featuring Garage Gothic typeface by Frere-Jones Type.

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew was presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park from August 10th through September 5th, 1999, together with Molière’s Tartuffe.

From Playbill:

Tartuffe concerns a venal and libidinous religious hypocrite who holds a household under his thrall until being exposed for what he is. When first presented in 1664 France, the sharp satire created such a furor that the pious of Paris suppressed the play. It was not performed for another three years, and then in an altered version.

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