Taming of the Shrew- AO2: Act 4

Question 1

‘Therefore fire, fire cast on no water’- Grumio

Answer 1

Foreshadowing Kate’s taming

Question 2

‘I am no beast’- Curtis

Answer 2

Animal imagery -> links to views on lower class, the Lord in the induction ‘O monstrous beast!’

Question 3

‘Come, you are so full of cony-catching’- Curtis

Answer 3

Concealing the truth

Question 4

‘(cuffing him)’- Grumio

Answer 4

Slapstick interaction

Question 5

‘Tell thou the tale…. To thy grave’- Grumio

Answer 5

Farce slapstick interaction being recounted

Question 6

‘You peasant swain’- Petruchio

Answer 6

Recounting what the Lord calls Sly

Question 7

‘Sit down, Kate, and welcome’- Petruchio

Answer 7

Pretending to be kind to Kate.

Question 8

‘Rascals, villains, you rogue, (he kicks the Servant’- Petruchio

Answer 8

Negative ways to address and treat people

Question 9

‘Take that…you whoreson villain, will you let it fall’- Petruchio

Answer 9

Very erratic and abusive behaviour, trying to ‘save’ Kate.

Question 10

‘Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber’- Petruchio

Answer 10

Expectations to consummate their marriage

Question 11

‘Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak’- Curtis

Answer 11

She is starving and sexually deprived

Question 12

‘And till she stoop she must not be fully gorged’- Petruchio

Answer 12

She can’t eat until she changes

Question 13

‘Man my haggard’- Petruchio

Answer 13

‘Tame my bird’ -> animal imagery

Question 14

‘Last night she slept not…there the bolster’- Petruchio

Answer 14

Pretends to care about her

Question 15

‘Thus have I politicly begun my reign… that is all done in reverent care of her’- Petruchio

Answer 15

No one calls him out and his terrible plan

Question 16

‘Conversation between Grumio and Kate’- lines 18-31

Answer 16

Servant treating master badly, taking ‘fool’ part to starve Kate

Question 17

‘This kindness merits thanks,/What, not a word?….. I pray you let it stand’- Katherina

Answer 17

Animal imagery- treating and rewarding her

Question 18

‘Here is the cap your worship did bespeak’- Haberdasher

Answer 18

Shows Kate’s progress as it is repeated -> structure -> important as it foreshadows end with Kate, makes Kate think Petruchio will treat her well.

Question 19

‘I say it is the moon that shines so bright’- Petruchio, ‘I know it is the sun that shines so bright’- Katherina

Answer 19

Shows complete control -> ‘It shall be moon, or star, or what I list’- Petruchio

Question 20

‘Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,/And be it moon, or sun, or what you please;/And if you please to call it a rush-candle/Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me’- Katherina

Answer 20

She’s doing anything to please him

Question 21

‘I say it is the moon’- Petruchio

Answer 21

Parallelism

Question 22

‘I know it is the moon’- Katherina

Answer 22

Repetition

Question 23

‘Then, God be blessed, it is the blesséd sun… be so for Katherine- Katherina

Answer 23

She has given up

Question 24

‘The field is won’- Hortensio

Answer 24

Battlefield, metaphor- battle for Petruchio to tame Kate

Question 25

Kate having more speech in this scene

Answer 25

Journey to happiness(?)

Question 26

‘Fair sir, and you my merry mistress…. Which long I have not seen’- Vincentio

Answer 26

Dramatic irony creates complex plot