TamingoftheShrewAnalysis

The whole plot of the play drives toward these goals. It was Kate's submission to Petruchio which makes him a man, finally and indisputably (Kahn 419). Kate ...

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy about two sisters in which the youngest is not allowed to marry until her older, ill-tempered and stubborn sister does so.

Here we meet Christopher Sly, a tinker by trade and a drunk by avocation. As the action opens, he is being thrown out of an alehouse. Drunken, he falls asleep ...

Dramatist John Fletcher created a sequel to Shakespeare's work with his 1611 play The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed wherein Petruchio, now a widower, ...

The ballad ends conventionally with a meal at which father, mother, and neighbors admire the once-shrewish wife's obedience and with a challenge to the audience ...

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Analysis · Analyse Katherina. Katherina appears to go through a huge transformation over the course of the play. · Analyse Petruchio. The Taming of the Shrew is ...

Petruchio uses an extended metaphor to compare Kate to a wild bird of prey, and how he will tame and train her like an animal, using traditional methods of ...

Lucentio is successful, and he and Bianca fall in love. This subplot is an important feature of the play—it acts as a narrative foil for the text's main plot.

The central plot involves Petruchio's attempt to “tame” Kate and conform her to societal expectations of a submissive wife. Meanwhile, a secondary plot follows ...