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Taming Of The Shrew Flashcards

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“Sirs I will practice on this drunken man”

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Person: The lord
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming, disguise
Significance: sets up key themes of play

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“And see him dressed in all suits like a lady”

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Person: The lord
Aspects of comedy: disguises, trickery, cross dressing
Significance: sets up the play in terms of disguises (Lucentio, Tranio, etc)

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“I am a lord indeed, and not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly”

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Person: Sly
Aspects of comedy: mistaken identity, social class

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“Marry, I will let them play it. Is not a comonty”

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Person: Sly
Aspects of comedy: foolishness
Significance: portrays sly as a comic fool

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“Devils dam”

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People: Gremio
Aspects of comedy: mockery, cruelty

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“Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister”

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People: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming
Significance: introduces main plot

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What’s the significance of people speaking in prose

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Traditionally, lower classed characters (Tranio, Grumio, biondello)

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What’s the significance of speaking in verse

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Used by upper class and sly when he’s a “lord”

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“We set his youngest free for a husband”

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Person: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: trickery, plotting and scheming

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“Woo her, wed her, bed her”

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Person: Gremio
Aspects of comedy: bawdiness

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“You will be school master”

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Person: Tranio (to Lucentio)
Aspects of comedy: disguise, trickery, servants and masters
significance: sets up the sub plot (Bianca)

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What’s the significance of the frame narrative

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Reminds the audience of the triviality of the play, keeping it a comedy

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[he wrings Grumios ears]

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Stage direction
Aspects of comedy: slapstick, violence

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“She is intolerable curst and shrewd and froward”

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Who: Hortensio
Aspects of comedy: mockery, cruelty

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“Katherine the curst” “a title for a maid”

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Who: Grumio
Aspects of comedy: gender, mockery, cruelty, social class

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What’s the significance of Grumio mocking Katherina

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Shows that gender is more important than social class

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“Will you woo this wild cat” “will I live”

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Who: Gremio followed by Petruchio
Aspects of comedy: gender, mockery, marriage, cruelty

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“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”

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Who: Petruchio to Kate
Aspects of comedy: marriage
Significance: Petruchios challenge of taming Kate (main plot)

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“Thus have I politically begun my reign and tis my hope to end successfully”

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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

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“I must dance barefoot on her wedding day and, for your love to her, lead apes in hell”

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Who: Katherina
Aspects of comedy: gender, stereotypes
Significance: a spinster would traditionally dance barefoot, reflects a biblical proverb

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“A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill seeming, thick, bereft of beauty”

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Who: katherina (monologue)
Aspects of comedy: gender, marriage, stereotypes (hyperbole ? Mockery?)
Significance: demonstrates her ‘change in behaviour’, reflects induction

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“If you affect him, sister, here is swear I’ll plead for you myself, but you shall have him”

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Who: Bianca to katherina
Aspects of comedy: gender, stereotypes, marriage (disguises, violence)
Significance: shows Bianca and Katherinas behaviour to each other

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“What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see she is your treasure, she must have a husband”

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Who: katherina to baptista
Aspects of comedy: gender, marriage
Significance: portrays Bianca as Baptistas favoured child, could be the source of Katherinas anger

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“I burn, I pine, I perish”

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Who: Lucentio
Aspects of comedy: hyperbole
Significance: the trivial nature of love

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“you do me double wrong To strive for that which resteth in my choice”

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Who: Bianca
Aspects of comedy: gender role subversion, marriage

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“Fair looks and true obedience”

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Who: katherina
Aspects of comedy: hyperbole, subversion of original role, gender stereotypes, marriage
Significance: presents her as tame, comic resolution

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