| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.51 | But like a shrew you first begin to brawl. | But like a shrew you first begin to brawle. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.141 | Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's. 'Shrew me, | Hath left mine Arme: it was thy Masters. Shrew me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.21 | Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew, | Did pretty Iessica (like a little shrow) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.306 | A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew. | A meacocke wretch can make the curstest shrew: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.29 | Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour. | Much more a shrew of impatient humour. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.18 | Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported? | Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.76 | By this reckoning he is more shrew than she. | By this reckning he is more shrew than she. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.196 | He that knows better how to tame a shrew, | He that knowes better how to tame a shrew, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.58 | To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue. | To tame a shrew, and charme her chattering tongue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.28 | Your husband, being troubled with a shrew, | Your housband being troubled with a shrew, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.64 | I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all. | I thinke thou hast the veriest shrew of all. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.187 | Now, go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew. | Now goe thy wayes, thou hast tam'd a curst Shrow. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.44 | Bless you, fair shrew. | Blesse you faire Shrew. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.281 | My present vengeance taken. 'Shrew my heart, | My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart, |