Taming Of The Shrew Flashcards
“Sirs I will practice on this drunken man”
Person: The lord
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming, disguise
Significance: sets up key themes of play
“And see him dressed in all suits like a lady”
Person: The lord
Aspects of comedy: disguises, trickery, cross dressing
Significance: sets up the play in terms of disguises (Lucentio, Tranio, etc)
“I am a lord indeed, and not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly”
Person: Sly
Aspects of comedy: mistaken identity, social class
“Marry, I will let them play it. Is not a comonty”
Person: Sly
Aspects of comedy: foolishness
Significance: portrays sly as a comic fool
“Devils dam”
People: Gremio
Aspects of comedy: mockery, cruelty
“Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister”
People: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming
Significance: introduces main plot
What’s the significance of people speaking in prose
Traditionally, lower classed characters (Tranio, Grumio, biondello)
What’s the significance of speaking in verse
Used by upper class and sly when he’s a “lord”
“We set his youngest free for a husband”
Person: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming
“Woo her, wed her, bed her”
Person: Gremio
Aspects of comedy: bawdiness
“You will be school master”
Person: Tranio (to Lucentio)
Aspects of comedy: disguise, trickery, servants and masters
significance: sets up the sub plot (Bianca)
What’s the significance of the frame narrative
Reminds the audience of the triviality of the play, keeping it a comedy
[he wrings Grumios ears]
Stage direction
Aspects of comedy: slapstick, violence
“She is intolerable curst and shrewd and froward”
Who: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: mockery, cruelty
“Katherine the curst” “a title for a maid”
Who: Grumio
Aspects of comedy: gender, mockery, cruelty, social class
What’s the significance of Grumio mocking Katherina
Shows that gender is more important than social class
“Will you woo this wild cat” “will I live”
Who: Gremio followed by Petruchio
Aspects of comedy: gender, mockery, marriage, cruelty
“For I am he born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other house hold Kate’s”
Who: Petruchio to Kate
Aspects of comedy: marriage
Significance: Petruchios challenge of taming Kate (main plot)
“Thus have I politically begun my reign and tis my hope to end successfully”
Who: Petruchio to audience
Aspects of comedy: gender, marriage
Significance: revealing plans to the audience is typical in Shakespeare’s plays for identifying the villain, allows for dramatic irony
“I must dance barefoot on her wedding day and, for your love to her, lead apes in hell”
Who: Katherina
Aspects of comedy: gender, stereotypes
Significance: a spinster would traditionally dance barefoot, reflects a biblical proverb
“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill seeming, thick, bereft of beauty”
Who: katherina (monologue)
Aspects of comedy: gender, marriage, stereotypes (hyperbole ? Mockery?)
Significance: demonstrates her ‘change in behaviour’, reflects induction
“If you affect him, sister, here is swear I’ll plead for you myself, but you shall have him”
Who: Bianca to katherina
Aspects of comedy: gender, stereotypes, marriage (disguises, violence)
Significance: shows Bianca and Katherinas behaviour to each other
“What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see she is your treasure, she must have a husband”
Who: katherina to baptista
Aspects of comedy: gender, marriage
Significance: portrays Bianca as Baptistas favoured child, could be the source of Katherinas anger
“I burn, I pine, I perish”
Who: Lucentio
Aspects of comedy: hyperbole
Significance: the trivial nature of love
