Interlinear Trysting and 'Household Stuff': The Latin Lesson and the Domestication of Learning in The Taming of the Shrew | Interlinear Trysting and 'Household Stuff': The Latin Lesson and the Domestication of Learning in The Taming of the Shrew
Interlinear Trysting and 'Household Stuff': The Latin Lesson and the Domestication of Learning in The Taming of the Shrew
Thomas Moisan, Saint Louis University
Sly. Is not
a comonty a Christmas gambold, or a
tumbling-trick?
Page. No, my good lord, it is more pleasing
stuff.
Sly. What, household stuff?
Page. It is a kind of history.
Sly. Well, we'll see't.
(Taming of the Shrew, Induction 2.137-42)1Titus. Soft, so busily she turns the leaves!
Help her.
What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?
This is the tragic tale of Philomel,
And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape—
And rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy.Demetrius. What's here? a scroll,...
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