The Taming of the Shrew - Key Quotations Flashcards
INDUCTION, S1 - “O _________ beast, how like a _____ he ____!” - Lord
“O MONSTROUS beast, how like a SWINE he LIES!”
INDUCTION, S1 - “Sirs, I will ________ on this _______ man” - Lord
“Sirs, I will PRACTICE on this DRUNKEN man”
INDUCTION, S2 - “I am your ____ in all _________” - Page
“I am your WIFE in all OBEDIENCE”
A1, S1 - “I pray you, sir, is it your ____ / To make a _____ of me amongst these _____?” - Katherina
“I pray you, sir, is it your WILL / To make a STALE of me amongst these MATES?”
A1, S1 - “I ____, I ____, I ______” - Lucentio
“I BURN, I PINE, I PERISH”
A1, S2 - “I come to ____ it wealthily in _____; / If _________, then _______ in _____” - Petruchio
“I come to WIVE it wealthily in PADUA; / If WEALTHILY, then HAPPILY in PADUA”
A1, S2 - “He ____ the _____ of my life in ____, / His ________ daughter, beautiful ______” - Hortensio
“He HATH the JEWEL of my life in HOLD, / His YOUNGEST daughter, beautiful BIANCA”
A1, S2 - “Katherine the _____” - Grumio
“Katherine the CURST”
A1, S2 - “Have I not in my ____ heard _____ ____?” - Petruchio
“Have I not in my TIME heard LIONS ROAR?”
A2, S1 - “I _______, ______ Kate, _____ my _____” / “[Katherina _______ her]” - Bianca
“I PRITHEE, SISTER Kate, UNTIE my HANDS” / “[Katherina STRIKES her]”
A2, S1 - “Pray, have you not a ________ / Call’d Katherina, ____ and ________?” - Petruchio
“Pray, have you not a DAUGHTER / Call’d Katherina, FAIR and VIRTUOUS?”
A2, S1 - “And where two ______ _____ meet ________ / They do _______ the thing that _____ their ____” - Petruchio
“And where two RAGING FIRES meet TOGETHER / They do CONSUME the thing that FEEDS their FURY”
A2, S1 - Hortensio enters “[with his ____ _____]”
Hortensio enters “with his HEAD BROKE”
A2, S1 - “with a most _________ ________ spirit” - Hortensio
“with a most IMPATIENT DEVILISH spirit”
A2, S1 - “If I be _______, best beware my _____” - Katherina
“If I be WASPISH, best beware my STING”
A2, S1 - “And ____ you, ____ you, I will _____ you” - Petruchio
“And WILL you, NILL you, I will MARRY you”
A2, S1 - “For I am __ am ____ to ____ you, Kate” - Petruchio
“For I am HE am BORN to TAME you, Kate”
A3, S2 - “For such an ______ would vex a very _____, / Much more a _____ of thy impatient ______” - Baptista
“For such an INJURY would vex a very SAINT, / Much more a SHREW of thy impatient HUMOUR”
A3, S2 - “An ___-____ to our ______ ________” - Baptista
“An EYE-SORE to our SOLEMN FESTIVAL”
A3, S2 - “she’s a ____, a ____, a ____ to him!” - Gremio
“she’s a LAMB, a DOVE, a FOOL to him!”
A3, S2 - “Be ___ and _____ - or go ____ yourselves. / But for my _____ Kate, she must with __” - Petruchio
“Be MAD and MERRY - or go HANG yourselves. / But for my BONNY Kate, she must with ME”
A3, S2 - “I will be ______ of what is mine own. / She is my _____, my ________; she is my _____” - Petruchio
“I will be MASTER of what is mine own. / She is my GOODS, my CHATTELS; she is my HOUSE”
A4, S1 - “By this _________ he is more _____ than she” - Curtis
“By this RECKONING he is more SHREW than she”
A4, S1 - “And thus I’ll ____ her mad and __________ humour. / He that knows ______ how to tame a shrew, / Now let him _____” - Petruchio
“And thus I’ll CURB her mad and HEADSTRONG humour. / He that knows BETTER how to take a shrew, / Now let him SPEAK”
A4, S2 - “[Tranio disguised as ________ and Hortenio disguised as _____]”
A4, S2 - “[Tranio disguised as LUCENTIO and Hortensio disguised as LITIO]”
A4, S2 - “And here I take the like _________ ____ / Never to marry with her” - Tranio
“And here I take the like UNFEIGNED OATH / Never to marry with her”
A4, S3 - “The more my _____, the more his _____ appears. / What, did he marry me to ______ me?” - Katherina
“The more my WRONG, the more his SPITE appears. / What, did he marry to FAMISH me?”
A4, S5 - “And be it ____ or ___ or whatever you please; / And if you call it a ____-______, / Henceforth I ___ it shall be so for me” - Katherina
“And be it MOON or SUN or whatever you please; / And if you call it a RUSH-CANDLE, / Henceforth I VOW it shall be so for me”
A5, S1 - “I will give thee a ____. / Now pray thee, love, ____” - Katherina
“I will give thee a KISS. / Now pray thee, love, STAY”
A5, S2 - “Am I your ____? I mean to _____ my ____” - Bianca
“Am I your BIRD? I mean to SHIFT my BUSH”
A5, S2 - “Thy husband is thy ____, thy ____, thy ______, / Thy ____, thy _________” - Katherina
“Thy husband is thy LORD, thy LIFE, thy KEEPER, / Thy HEAD, thy SOVEREIGN”
A5, S2 - “And when she is _______, _______, ______, ____, / And not obedient to his honest ____, / What is she but a foul contending _____ / And a graceless _______ to her ______ lord?” - Katherina
“And when she is FROWARD, PEEVISH, SULLEN, SOUR, / And not obedient to his honest WILL, / What is she but a foul contending REBEL / And a graceless TRAITOR to her LOVING lord?”
A5, S2 - “thou hast tam’d a _____ shrew” - Hortensio
“thou hast tam’d a CURST shrew”
