Petruchio states, "For I am he born to tame you Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate comfortable as other household Kates " (Shakespeare Act II, Scene I). ... Critic Ruth Nevo wrote, "The man she has married has humor and high spirits, intuition, patience, self-command, and masterful intelligence; and there is more than merely a homily for Elizabethan wives in her famous speech: She wins her husband's wager but the speech bespeaks a generosity of spirit beyond the call of two hundred crowns "(Nevo, Shakespeare for Students, 358). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate