The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tam'd was written by John Fletcher (1579-1625) as a radical sequel to William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (c.1590-1592). While Shakespeare's Katherina is subdued by her bullying husband Petruchio, Fletcher turns things on their head by letting women tame men. Fletcher's play is set in London after Katherina's death, and Petruchio is remarried to Maria. However, he still has nightmares that Katharina will haunt...

Long sought by scholars as the Holy Grail of world literature, and masquerading under the censor's makeshift title, "The second maiden's tragedy," this lost play was discovered by Charles Hamilton, a forensic document examiner and literary historian.