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Taming Of The Shrew Flashcards

1
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I’ll freeze you. . . Y’are a baggage

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Sly > Hostess Induction 1

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O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies

Balm his foul head in distilled waters

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Lord (Sly) Induction 1

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call me not ‘honour’ nor ‘lordship’ . . . give me conserves of beef

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Sly> servants Induction 2

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I see, I hear, I speak, I smell sweet flavours.

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Sly, Induction2

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In brief, sir, study what you most affect

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Tranio > Lucentio Act 1 Scene 1

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She’s too rough for me

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Gremio > Baptisa Act 1 Scene 1

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Is it your will to make a stale of me

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Katerina > Baptisa Act 1 Scene 1

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8
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That wench is stark mad

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Tranio > Lucentio Act 1 Scene 1

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9
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A pretty peat!

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Katerina > Baptisa Act 1 Scene 1

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10
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there’s small choice in rotten apples

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Hortensio > Gremio Act 1 Scene 1

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Tranio, I burn! . . . If I achieve not this young modest girl.

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Lucentio Act 1 Scene 1

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I will charm him first to keep his tongue.

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Lucentio > Tranio (Baptisa) Act 1 Scene 1

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13
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wive it wealthily in Padua; if wealthily, then happily

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Petruchio > Hortensio Act 1 Scene 2

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I know her father, though I know not her, and he knew my deceased father well.

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Petruchio > Hortensio Act 1 Scene 2

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15
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‘Katherine the curst’!

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Grumio > P + H Act 1 Scene 2

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16
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sweeter than perfume itself

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Gremio > G + P + H Act 1 Scene 2

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17
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Will he woo her? Ay, or I’ll hang her.

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Grumio > G + P Act 1 Scene 2

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18
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Until the elder sister first be wed. The younger then is free.

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Petruchio > Gremio Act 1 Scene 2

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19
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To make a bondmaid and a slave of me.

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Bianca > Katherina Act 2 Scene 1

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20
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you fancy riches more

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Katherina > Bianca Act 2 Scene 1

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21
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Sister Kate, untie my hands

[Katherina] strikes her

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Bianca > Katherina Act 2 Scene 1

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They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

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Petruchio > Baptisa Act 2 Scene 1

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23
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Kate (the: differing repetition)

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Petruchio > Katherina Act 2 Scene 1

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Women are made to bear, and so are you.

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Petruchio > Katherina Act 2 Scene 1

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25
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born to tame you, Kate

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Petruchio > Katherina Act 2 Scene 1

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26
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[aside] Our fine musician groweth amorous

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Lucentio > Hortensio Act 3 Scene 1

27
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Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice to change true rules for odd inventions.

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Bianca > Hortensio Act 3 Scene 1

28
Q

No shame but mine . . . who wooed in haste and means to wed at lesiure.

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Katherina > Baptisa Act 3 Scene 2

29
Q

world point at poor Katherine ‘mad Petruchio’s wife’

. . . [exit weeping]

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Katherina > Baptisa Act 3 Scene 2

30
Q

She’s the devil’s dam!

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Tranio > Gremio Act 3 Scene 2

31
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sweet and virtuous wife

giving himself away to K

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Petruchio (K) Act 3 Scene 2

32
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Be mad and merry. . . bonny Kate, she must with me

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Petruchio > witnesses of marriage Act 3 Scene 2

33
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Fie, fir on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul ways!

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Grumio (silioquy) Act 4 Scene 1

34
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he is more shrew than she

based on Grumio’s rant

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Curtis Act 4 Scene 1

35
Q

You peasant swain! You whoreson malthorse drudge!

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Petruchio > Grumio Act 4 Scene 1

36
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Sit down Kate, food food food!

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Petruchio Act 4 Scene 1

37
Q

we’ll fast for company to thy bridal chamber

food ‘tis burnt’

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Petruchio > Katherina Act 4 Scene 1

38
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He kills her in her own humour

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(servant talk) Act 4 Scene 1

39
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my falcon now is sharp. . .come and know her keeper’s call

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Petruchio > Curtis Act 4 Scene 1

40
Q

mistress Biana doth fancy any other but lucentio?

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Tranio L > Hortensio L Act 4 Scene 2

41
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I read that I profess, ‘The art to Love’

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Lucentio C > Bianca Act 4 Scene 2

42
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makes a god of such a cullion. . . I am Hortensio

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Hortensio L > all Act 4 Scene 2

43
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Foreswear Bianca and her love for ever

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Tranio L > Hortensio Act 4 Scene 2

44
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See how beastly she doth court him

Bianca

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Tranio > Hortensio Act 4 Scene 2

45
Q

disdainful haggard. . .kindness in women, not their beauteous looks

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Hortensio > Tranio Act 4 Scene 2

46
Q

The taming school?

Petruchio is the master

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Bianca, Tranio Act 4 Scene 2

47
Q

[why] marry me to famish me?

. . .giddy for lack of sleep

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Katherina > Grumio Act 4 Scene 3

48
Q

false deluding slave [beats him]

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(for getting meat / mustard wrong)

Katherina > Grumio Act 4 Scene 3

49
Q

Faith, as cold as can be

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Katherina > P (taming sign) Act 4 Scene 3

50
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My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break

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Katherina > Petruchio Act 4 Scene 3

51
Q

to make a puppet of thee

confiring K’s assumption through repetition

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Petruchio > Katherina Act 4 Scene 3

52
Q

Give me Bianca for my patrimony

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Tranio > Baptisa Act 4 Scene 4

53
Q

[indicates Luncentio and winks]

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Tranio Act 4 Scene 4

54
Q

Hap what hap may, I’ll roundly go about her.

hints at mutual in relationship

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Lucentio C > Biondello Act 4 Scene 4

55
Q

I say it is the moon that shines so bright

I know it is the sun that shines so bright

(declarative, P = moon power to control sea (K), inevitable taming will happen =sunset)

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Petruchio, Katherina Act 4 Scene 5

56
Q

I know it is the moon

Nay, the blessed sun

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Katherina, Petruchio Act 4 Scene 5

57
Q

bedazzled with the sun, everything I look on is green

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Katherina > Petruchio Act 4 Scene 5

58
Q

flat knavery, to take upon another man’s name

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Petruchio (Lucentio) Act 5 Scene 1

59
Q

counterfit supposes bleared thine eye. . .love wrought these miracle
(disguise failing)

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Lucentio > Baptisa Act 5 Scene 1

60
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raging war is done. . .sit and sit, eat and eat!

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Lucentio > B + P + K Act 5 Scene 2

61
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Padua affords nothing but what is kind (ironic)

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Petruchio > Baptisa Act 5 Scene 2

62
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husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper (ultimate submission)

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Katherina (silioquy) Act 5 Scene 2

63
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thou has tamed a curst shrew

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Hortensio (P>K) Act 5 scene 2

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