The Taming of The Shrew

Question 1

AO5

Newman says..

Answer 1

It is the silence which has insured Bianca’s place in the male economy of desire and exchange.

Question 2

Meredith asserts that..

Answer 2

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life

Question 3

Underdown claims that…

Answer 3

Shrewishness is a class as well as gender issue

Question 4

Newman maintains the position that…

Answer 4

Bianca is “a treasure the exchange of which assures patriarchal hegemony”

Question 5

Gay argues that..

Answer 5

Comedy, while delighting in the events of a briefly topsy-turvy world, is ultimately conservative

Question 6

Hopkins says it is..

Answer 6

possible to discern (…) clear signs of conservatism

Question 7

Maslen argues that

Answer 7

comedies were concerned with lower social orders and gave them a voice in ways that was sometimes challenging or subversive

Question 8

Newman also makes the assertion that

Answer 8

he (petruchio) makes her a Bianca with words