taming of the shrew
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The scene that I feel should be cut from the play is the first introduction scenes one and two. The scenes include arbitrary characters that play absolutely no role in the "Taming of the Shrew" and offers little more than a funny joke to set the mood for a play. It is completely irrelevant focusing on a king who finds a drunken beggar whom the king makes his servants take him back and dress him up like a lord, and convince him he is a king. The beggar, whose name is Sly, is skeptical at first but is finally convinced after seeing his wife that he is a lord that has been in a deep sleep for 15 years. First off, the "Taming of the Shrew" has nothing to do with kings and practical jokes, but is more focused on an association between a man and an unwanted maiden, and their pre and post marriage relationship. The introduction shows no development of "shrewish" or unruly people and offers no insight on women or wooing women, which is the whole basis of the real play.
The beginning sequence does nothing to prepare us for the upcoming events or characters. It shows no development of any form of marriage and just seems out of place after reading the play. The introduction seems like the beginning of an entirely different setting and type of play that was accidentally placed into this story. The scene is random and unimportant to the "Taming of the Shrew"; the play would read and be interpreted the exact same even if you omitted the introduction...