Cliffs Notes on Shakespear's Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. The original study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices and historical background. Twelfth Night, originally published in 1982, The Taming of the Shrew, originally published in 1971, by author James L Roberts. The Twelfth Night has a small imperfection on the botton right of the the back cover-shown in the picture, otherwise, both books are in excellent condition.