Quiz 23 Flashcards
In what year was the first commercial public theater of the world built just outside London?
1576
T/F: WS uses the do+ as a regulating auxiliary more than most writers
False
Specify as PD or S:
POV Comedy Tragedy Melodrama
Characters PD S PD
Audience S PD PD
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Taming of the Shrew has 3 plots. Which one of the three cannot be found in previous literature?
the Kate plot
What is the means/method of “taming” in earlier dramas about shrewish wives?
domestic vioolence
In the two videos shown in class a) Zefferelli’s with Burtion and Taylor or b) American Consevatory Theatre’s comedia del arte, which portrayed Petruchio as most competent?
b
What kind of play does the page (wife) say they are about to see?
a history
Lucentio says he has come to Pauda to study. What does he say he will study?
virtue and philosophy
When Kate says “put a finger in the eye” whose finger does she mean and whose eye?
her finger in her eye
For what does Lucentio say “I burn, I pine, I perish”?
Bianca
T/F: Gremio greatly admires learning
True
On what condition do both Petruchio and Baptista agree on dowry and inheritance, what must be well obtained?
her love
What does Kate do with the lute?
break it over Hortensio’s head
What will Petruchio say if Kate rails at him?
“she sings as sweetly as a nightingale”
T/F: Kate is hopeful that Petruchio wont show up for their wedding
False
Petruchio says he must leave. When does KAte say she will leave?
When she wants to
Of what does Petruchio insist that he’ll be master?
of what is his own
What does Petruchio ask if anyone in the audience knows?
How better to tame a shrew
Why does Kate beat on Grumio?
he brings her mustard with out beef
According to Petruchio, what truly “makes the body rich”?
the mind
To what does Kate agree about the sun and the moon?
what you please
What have “bleared thin (Baptista’s) eyne”?
counterfit supposes
What does Petruchio want before he will go into Lucentio’s house?
a kiss from Kate
What does Biondello say that the widow ask?
to come to her
