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The Taming of the Shrew
To suit audiences of the day and to live up to the promise of its title--that the "shrew" be "tamed," Katherine (Kate) does eventually give into social pressures and conforms to a social hierarchy...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The question most likely is asking for a comparison of the way Petruchio’s behavior in regards to women would have been regarded in Shakespeare’s time versus how it would have been regarded...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The main event at the end of Act III is the marriage between Petruchio and Katharine. Petruchio makes the wedding day as humiliating as possible. First, he turns up late, making his bride and her...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In this opening scene, a bored nobleman decides to trick the drunken Sly into believing that he is a lord. The nobleman enlists his servants and a troup of players into the scheme and says that his...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Readings on the gender roles and relations in The Taming of the Shrew have changed throughout the years as the social norms surrounding gender have changed. While for years audiences enjoyed the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
One of the most famous scenes in The Taming of the Shrew is when Katharina and Petruchio meet, starting around 2.1.184. The two of them exchange barbs that are both sharp and suggestive. When...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Ali is Baba's Hazara servant who is loyal and faithful to Baba's family throughout the novel. Similar to his master, Ali is also a compassionate individual who takes care of others. Baba is known...
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The Taming of the Shrew
It is always difficult to determine authorial intent. We are not able to ask Shakespeare what he wants us to feel; even then, audiences might react very differently to what the author intended....
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Act 1, Scene 1 (after the Introduction) of The Taming of the Shrew, we meet Lucentio and Tranio, two men recently arrived in Padua. Based on Lucentio's opening speech, we can assume much about...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is the scene where Katharina finally gives into Petruchio. Since he heard of her, he planned to marry her for her money and in the process “tame” her. He refuses to give up, humiliating...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Dramatic comedy is that which shows humans as worse than they might be portrayed in reality. It highlights all of the many flaws that may encompass certain characters, or people in similar...
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The Taming of the Shrew
It is difficult to define a good biblical husband because there are so many definitions of good husbands in the Bible. However, one can judge Petruchio based on Kate’s final monologue. Her long...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Taming of the Shrew, Sly is a drunkard who has just been kicked out of an inn for breaking glasses and not paying for them. When the hostess goes off to fetch the law, he falls asleep, whereupon...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio comes to Padua mainly to find a rich and wealthy wife. Petruchio is characterized as a greedy person who deals with marriage just like a transaction. He only wants to marry Kate Minola...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
The two plays have somewhat different uses for illusion. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairies are the primary cause of delusions. Puck and Oberon use a love potion to taint the perceptions...
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The Taming of the Shrew
A patriarchal society is one that is controlled by men: as heads of government, religion, society and family. In other words, Elizabethan society (ironically—in that England had a female monarch)...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Act 1 starts after a brief introductory section. The introduction is great. A lord decides to play a trick on a man named Sly. Sly is passed out drunk when the lord finds him. The lord's plan...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This passage from Act 3, Scene 2 shows that it belongs to the resolution because Petruchio is fully in charge of his bride. Modern audiences are usually opposed to the idea of a woman being...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Katherina is obviously the "shrew" referenced in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and she lives up to that reputation, at least in most ways. A shrew is defined as a "an unpleasant,...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Tranio is Lucentio's servant, and the way that he distracts Baptista for the evening is by dressing up in Lucentio's clothes and tells Baptista of his intentions to court his daughter Bianca. There...
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King Lear
One symbolic importance of the setting/location in The Taming of the Shrew is that the residences of nobility--Kate's father's castle and Petruchio's castle--give opening for the theme of...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is a very interesting question to consider, because many argue that the ending of this play represents the complete oppositie of freedom with the way that Katharina submits to her state of...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Bianca starts out innocent and nice. Unlike Katherine, she follows orders and soes what she is told and is generally a good girl. Once she had her man, she was no longer willing to pretend.
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew obviously has a more central focus on the importance of marriage because of the social expectations during Shakespeare's day. Marriage was the appropriate 'sphere' for the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This play can be discussed in two ways--either in the affirmative or in the feminist views. The play is about taming a wife like one would train a dog! The moral of the story might be, "If you want...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, the only thing that I find surprising in Kate's behavior is that she actually goes with her husband when he demands they leave their wedding celebration....
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The Taming of the Shrew
The ways these are different are pretty well obvious. One is an English drama written by a poet. The other is an Arabic story that comes to us in English translation as prose with a few quotes of...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, some similarities may be found by comparing it to The Arabian Nights (also known as The Thousand and One Nights). In Shakespeare's play, Petruchio is...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This quote comes of course from the final scene of the play, when Katharina is the only wife who responds to her husband's call. She then uses her example of obedience as a chance to berate the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina is an ill-tempered, ill-mannered, nasty, and rude young woman of exceptional beauty, who refuses to be courted by any of the young men of the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is an excellent question, particularly because the play gives no indication whatsoever as to what might happen to Christopher Sly after he finishes watching the play that is being enacted...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The most obvious lense that you can use to compare these two brilliant comedies is that of gender studies. Both texts raise massive questions about the role of women and in particular the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Many of William Shakespeare's plays have been able to transcend time (most poignantly seen by the continued focus and use of his plays in schools today). The themes which appear in his plays are...
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The Taming of the Shrew
WIlliam Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is similar to different works in different respects. Considered in relationship to Shakespeare's other plays, The Taming of the Shrew is most closely...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The film 10 Things I Hate About You takes its primary plot from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which Baptista forbids his younger daughter, Bianca, from marrying until a husband has been...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In a notable essay on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew published in 1988 (see link below), Shirley Nelson Garner made a number of key arguments, including the following: The play...
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The Taming of the Shrew
We need to be very careful with Katharina's final speech, where she shows just how successful Petruchio has been in "taming" her by recommending that women place their "hands below [their]...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Her taming was typical to 16th Cent. marriage ideals and so would have been accepted by the audience, even the women. It followed the idea that that farther (in this case Baptista) was the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Tamer Tamed or, as it is also known, The Woman's Prize, is set a few years after the end of The Taming of the Shrew. This later play revisits Petruchio, whose first wife, Kate, has died as a...
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The Taming of the Shrew
When you analyze a character in a Shakespeare play, you need to find how the character behaves and speaks and also note what the other characters say about your character. This way you can find...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is a good assignment that is being used to test your knowledge of the play but it is also after your own opinion and thoughts and it is testing your ability to express those in a letter form....
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The Taming of the Shrew
It is perhaps of no surprise that Katharina's speech in the final scene of this excellent play is not interpreted very favourably by a large number of feminist critics, and I would imagine that...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Women who have come to see a reason to not conform to society's expectations have generally found a reason to see and desire a broader horizon. Rarely, if ever, do women with broader visions try to...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This quote comes in the first scene when Petruchio starts to woo Katherine in Act II scene 1. What is amusing about this scene is that Petruchio plays the role of the traditional lover, only to...
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The Taming of the Shrew
You are right to focus on the intriguing change expressed in the character of Katharina in this final scene, in comparison with her shrewish behaviour as expressed at the beginning of the play. The...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In this hilarious scene, we actually see that Petruchio has so successfully out-shrewed his wife that she takes the role of being reasonable and trying to calm his anger and rage against the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Since Lucentio (Cambio) is the last of the suitor to arrive and not from Padua, I shall begin with the locals. Both Hortensio and Gremio are from Padua. Gremio is usually played as an old and rich...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The answer to this question can be found in Induction 2, when Sly wakes up after the Lord has planned his deception. Although the servants are completely ready with their "act," and when Sly wakes...
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The Taming of the Shrew
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The Taming of the Shrew
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