Taming of the Shrew Flashcards
Davies (1955) - Katherina’s monologue
“Her voice, too, is now fully his and there is no irony intended”
Raspa (2010) - Appearance vs Reality
What is evident to Petruchio is that no one has paid attention to Katherine the woman while everybody is exasperated with Katherine the Shrew.
Raspa (2010)- Character Transformation
“Katherine has become, like Petruchio, not tamed but shrewd.”
Billington (1978)- General critic
“[It] seems totally offensive to our age and society.”
Greer (2002)- General critique
“The Taming of the Shrew is not a knockabout farce of wife-battering, but the cunning adaptation of a folk-motif to show the forging of a partnership between equals”
Newman (1986) - Gender + Power
“When gender relations on stage are shown to be ‘natural’ in a fantasy play such as TOS, the artificiality of those relations is exposed by the drama”
Davies (1955) - Taming
she calls TOS a ‘manifest evasion’. This is a metaphor for a man as tamer; where men are seen as masters and women their ‘animals’ to be tamed
Roberts (1983) - Animal Imagery
“Katherina is associated with more animal imagery/metaphors than any other female character in Shakespeare’s work”
Ranald (1987) - Imagery
The critic is of the view that Shakespeare uses falcon imagery to show a “matrimonial relationship in which mutuality, trust and love are guiding forces”
Stevie Davies (1955) - Play’s Context
“Possessing no civil or civic functions, [women were] debarred from office… [they] could neither vote, nor give evidence in a lawcourt… a married woman did not, in law, exist.”
Dobischok (2020) - The taming of Katherina and Christopher Sly
“ Both the lord and Petruchio attempt to tame the person they control by constructing their reality.”
Doyle (2022) - TOS as a reflection of society
“problematic literature” offers a reflection of the time and place it was written and how our world is different and how some aspects of it might still be the same”
