Taming of the Shrew quotes Flashcards
Induction: The Lord discusses what will happen to Sly when they trick him
“Would not the beggar then forget himself?”
Induction: The page tells Sly this to convince him that he is his wife
“I am your wife in all obedience”
Act 1: Katherina is insulted when Baptista says that Hortensio or Gremio can have her if either wants her
“is it your will to make a stale of me amongst these mates”
Act 1: Lucentio overdramatically expresses his love for Bianca
“I burn, I pine, I perish”
Act 1: Gremio tells everyone what Katherina’s ‘title’ is
“Katharine the curst”
Act 1: Petruchio is unafraid of Katherina because he is an alpha
“Have I not in my time heard lions roar?”
Act 1: Hortensio compares Bianca to a precious object to show Petruchio why he wants to marry her
“the jewel of my life… beautiful Bianca”
Act 1: The reason why Petruchio came to Padua
“I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily then happily”
Act 2: Petruchio asks Baptista to show him to Katherina
“have you not a daughter call’d Katherina, fair and virtuous?”
Act 2: Petruchio explains why his and Katharina’s choleric natures make them perfect for one another
“Where two raging fires meet… they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”
Act 2: Hortensio says that Katharina has this because she hit him with a lute
“With a devilish spirit”
Act 2: Baptista tells Petruchio that he needs to win Katharina’s love
“When the special thing is obtained, that is, her love”
Act 2: Petruchio tells Kate that they are perfect for each other because:
“I am he am born to tame you Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.”
Act 3: Baptista excuses Katharina’s vexation at Petruchio being late to their wedding
“For such an injury would vex a very saint, Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour”
Act 3: Tranio is disappointed at Petruchio’s wedding outfit
“Not so well apparelled as I wish you were.”
Act 3: Gremio tells Tranio and Lucentio that Petruchio is far worse than Katharina
“Tut, she’s a lamb, a dove, a fool, to him”
Act 3: The tone shifts when Petruchio tells the wedding party that Katharina must leave with him
“Be mad and merry- or go hang yourselves”
Act 3: Petruchio treats Kate as an object now that they’re married
“She is my goods, my chattels”
Act 4: Curtis (one of Petruchio’s servants) feels that Petruchio must be worse than Katharina when Grumio explains what happened on the way back from the wedding
“By this reckoning he is more shrew than she”
Act 4: Petruchio explains how he is beginning to tame Katherina
“Thus have I politically begun my reign”
Act 4: Tranio (as Lucentio) gets Hortensio to swear off Bianca by swearing off her himself
“And here I take the…oath never to marry with her”
Act 4: Tranio dresses the Merchant/Pedant up so he can pretend to be Vincentio
“Go with me to clothe you as becomes you”
Act 4: Katherina tells Petruchio that she will believe whatever he says and be obedient
What you will have it named… so it shall be so for Katharina.
Act 5: Katherina is desperate to stay at her father’s house
‘I will give thee a kiss; now pray, love, stay.’ - to Petruchio
Act 5: Bianca reveals her shrewish nature
‘Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush.’
Act 5: Petruchio sees peace in the future with the now tamed Katharina
‘Peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life’
Act 5: Baptista is shocked that Kate has been tamed and rewards Petruchio
“I will add […] twenty thousand crowns Another dowry to another daughter, For she is changed”
Act 5: Bianca tells Lucentio he was foolish for expecting her to be obedient for the sake of the bet
‘The more fool you, for laying on my duty’
Act 5: Katherina chastises Bianca and the Widow for their disobedience
‘Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper.’
Act 4: Petruchio refuses to eat the meat, saying something quite ironic
‘For it engenders choler, planteth anger […] ourselves are choleric’
