Themes

Question 2

gender and misogyny

Answer 2

• Petruchio ‘taming’ Katerina to be submissive role of wife
• Bianca plays role of quiet, mild mannered women whilst Katerina rebels against this
• end scene of males teasing each other of who rules over wife and who is ruled by wife, making less of a man
• both men and women dont always fit gender role but always woman - Kat- who are punished

Question 3

gender and misogyny

Bianca

Answer 3

• puts up a front of a quiet, mild mannered sterotypical woman of the time
• wheras she actually remains intelligent and bold ‘despair not’ ‘am i your bird’

Question 4

gender and misogyny

Katerina

Answer 4

• viewed as ‘froward’ and hellish for being atypical, dominant, male-traited female
• valued less highly as a potential wife
• tamed? or pretending?

Question 5

gender and misogyny

Shakespeare’s potential purposes?

Answer 5

• expose traditional gender roles
• with all these swapping characters, gender roles may be just roles to be played rather than their identities (dramaturgiology link)

Question 6

gender and misogyny

where in the play + quotes?

Answer 6

• Act 1 Scene 2: “curst” “froward” “shrewd” “woo this wildcat”
• Act 2 Scene 1: “your treasure. she must have a husband”
• Act 4 Scene 3: “it shall be what o’clock I say it is”
• Act 5 Scene 2: “thy lord, thy life, thy keeper”

Question 7

social hieracy/ class

Answer 7

• women oppressed like the servants (beaten + insulted)
• starts with Sly where men are diff social classes, initiating role switching between servants

Question 8

servants link to class

Answer 8

• low end of social status yet more clever than masters- Tranio’s idea to swap clothes he is the force behind most of the plot
• Lucentio as Cambio, Tranio as Lucentio categories them in society more as a role rather than an identitity