Vinegar Girl

Vinegar Girl
First edition
AuthorAnne Tyler
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHogarth Shakespeare
SubjectThe Taming of the Shrew
Set inPresent-day Baltimore
PublisherHogarth
Publication date
2016
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
ISBN9780099589877
Websitehogarthshakespeare.com/vinegargirl

Vinegar Girl is a 2016 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It is the third book of Random House's "Hogarth Shakespeare" project, in which contemporary novelists retell stories from Shakespeare's plays. Interviewed by Ron Charles in The Washington Post, Tyler said " 'The Katherina in Shakespeare’s play is insane... She’s shrieking at Petruchio from the moment she meets him. And he’s not much better. So you know I had to tone them down. I’m sure that somebody is out there, saying, ‘This isn’t a shrew at all.’ "