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The Taming of the Shrew
By helping Petruchio, Hortensio is really just helping himself. He wants to marry Bianca, but Bianca's father Baptista will not allow her to marry until her older sister Katherina does so first....
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The Taming of the Shrew
In act 2, scene 1 of The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio and Kate meet for the first time in a hilarious wooing scene of physical comedy and witty wordplay. At one point, Petruchio compares his...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Ten Things I Hate About You is a loose film adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew. In both the movie and the play, we are told that when it comes to societal norms and gender...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio first says that he is simply in Padua to see his friends, principally Hortensio, but when Hortensio asks "what happy gale" blew him to Padua from Verona, he gives a rather more involved...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In the first scene of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, young Lucentio and his servant, Tranio, arrive in Padua, which is the capital city of the Province of Padua. Padua is a province in the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew, Baptista Minola, one of the wealthiest men in Padua, has two daughters—the lovely Bianca and the shrewish Katherina (known as "Kate")—and no...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Probably the most famous example of slapstick and humorous misunderstanding in one scene together is Act I, scene ii -- the entrance of Petruchio and Grumio. Petruchio is the master and Grumio his...
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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
In the 1967 movie version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor), Katherine—played by Elizabeth Taylor—throws...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew, it might seem that the author's view of marriage is traditional. Petruchio appears to be dominant in the marriage. When Petruchio marries Kate, he...
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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
In Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, in Act IV, scene one, we witness as Petruchio dresses down all of his servants, finding fault with all they do. Even Kate believes that perhaps he is too...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is an interesting question to consider. We need to take this quote in context and realise that this is Petruchio's most important moment in his attempt to "tame" his shrew of a wife. She has...
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The Taming of the Shrew
One of the themes Shakespeare develops is whether love is something that can be arranged, or whether love is something that comes directly from attraction. Bianca's affairs arise out of her...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Tranio is masquerading as Lucentio, a suitor for the hand of Bianca. Tranio is actually Lucentio's servant, but Lucentio is pretending to be Cambio, a...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Kate wants to know which of the suitors Bianca prefers (Hortensio or the Gremio). Bianca denies wanting either of them.
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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
The bet that Petruchio makes with his friends comes in the final scene of the play, Act V scene 2, and seems to be organised by him to demonstrate his final mastery of Katharina, his wife, and his...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Act Three, scene two, when all have gathered at the church, Petruchio is not to be found. She tells her father that her assumptions were correct: he is a...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is the part of the frame story in the play where Christopher Sly is dressed up and told by many that he is indeed a nobleman when he is equal to the town drunk. It is part of the...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Well, this play is full of humorous misunderstandings. There are definitely no shortage for you to identify! If you are focusing on Act I, however, I would have to pick Act I scene ii and in...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Well, Kate's attitude in this scene is deeply confusing. She's previously said that she'd rather be hanged than marry with Petruchio. Yet at the start of this scene, she openly bemoans the fact...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare is writing a great deal of his dialogue in iambic pentameter. This means there are ten syllables per line, with a stress on every other...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The movie is actually fairly closely tied to the play. Most of the differences are simple modernizations in order to make the movie "work" for the younger generation. Probably the most obvious of...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in Act Three, scene two, Petruchio acts in a non-traditional way by doing several things. First, he does not get dressed up for the wedding. Second, he...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In a rather amusing section, Hortensio leaves the stage to teach Katharina the lute, and we are told that he returns shortly with "his head broke." Baptista comments on how pale he looks and then...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in Act Two, scene one, Petruchio describes how Katharina and he get along when they are alone: and he lies through his teeth. This is clever because it...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In this scene, Curtis, a servant of Petruchio, is told certain events that have transpired between his master and his new mistress, whom he has not yet met, but of whom he has heard that she is a...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is our first introduction to Baptista and his two daughters, Katharina and Bianca. We can sympathise with Baptista - he has two beautiful daughters, but one, Katharina, is so shrewish that no...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Well, there are several to choose from, however for me, one of the most amusing elements is our first introduction to the "shrew" of the title, and how she estabilishes her shrew-like status with...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Grumio, Petruchio's manservant, is the first servant to appear, and his characterisation is in line with the traditional comic master-servant relationship. Grumio fails to understand (or, perhaps,...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Mousey is correct in suggesting that part of the purpose of the Induction in The Taming of the Shrew is to set a humorous tone. There is a bit more that can be found in the Induction, however, if...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The Induction with Christopher Sly is in fact the only "Induction" of its type in all of Shakespeare's works. The Induction shows Sly, a beggar, falling asleep. He is tricked by some...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This is an excellent question. It is rather amusing to note that so many directors choose to willingly omit the Induction from productions of this excellent play even when a clear relationship...
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Act Three, scene two, of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, I believe that Petruchio arrives to his wedding in old clothes for several reasons, all of which center around Kate and her...
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The Taming of the Shrew
It is, of course, easy to argue that this play does show a great deal of sexism. After all, the ways in which Petruchio treats Katerina would be extremely offensive if done today. In addition,...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This scene begins with Grumio's soliloquy as we are presented with the household of Petruchio and we are given certain information about the newly married couple but from the perspective of their...
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The Taming of the Shrew
One of the principal ways in which the theme of appearance vs. reality is continued throughout these two Acts is through the disguise and dissimulation of the principal characters in their attempt...
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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
I'm not sure the setting influences the characters. In other words, it seems unlikely to me that Shakespeare (or any playwright, for that matter) would have created these settings and then decided...
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The Taming of the Shrew
The master/servant relationship is a key one when it comes to comic plots in Shakespeare's play. It is kind of hard for us to grasp this since the idea of masters and servants doesn't fit so much...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This soliloquy that comes at the end of Act IV scene 1 features Petruchio's plans to "tame" the "shrew" that he has recently married. Throughout the soliloquy, Petruchio compares his wife to a bird...
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The Taming of the Shrew
This line, coming as it does in Act I scene 1, helps develop the exposition of the plot. Tranio and Lucentio have just witnessed the exasperated Baptista's final effort to marry off both of his...
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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
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
In Act Two, scene one, of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Tranio arrives at Baptista's home—pretending to be Lucentio; Lucentio is masquerading as Cambio, an instructor of languages....
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The Taming of the Shrew
In Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in Act Two, scene one, Petruchio makes a list of Katharina's charming characteristics. He describes her as having beauty and wit. He recognizes her...
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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
In act 5, scene 1, Vincentio discovers that another man is impersonating him. The merchant claims that he is Vincentio and calls for the true Vincentio's arrest. A little later, Vincentio sees...
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The Taming of the Shrew
Good question, and I think there's a good answer. Two things keep Baptista from marrying off Bianca despite the many excellent offers you mention. First, it would have defied the tradition of the...
