The Taming of the Shrew (Vol. 31) | Margaret Downs-Gamble (essay date 1993)
Margaret Downs-Gamble (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: "The Taming-School: The Taming of the Shrew as Lesson in Renaissance Humanism," in Privileging Gender in Early Modern England, edited by Jean R. Brink, Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Vol. XXIII, 1993, pp. 65-78.
[In the following essay, Downs-Gamble makes use of parallels between Petruchio's "taming" methods and the educational methods promoted by Renaissance humanists to analyze the meaning of Kate's submission.]
Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master,
That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,
To Tame a shrew and charm her chattering
tongue.
4.2.56-58knowledge of the oppressor
this is the oppressor's language
Yet I need it to talk to you
Adrienne Rich, "The Burning of Paper
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