Taming of the Shrew Gender Roles in The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew has always been an important play for those who study gender and its depiction early literature. ... Unlike many of the other characters in The Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio is simple and is only controlled by desires of the heart. ... Clearly this is showed in The Taming of the Shrew with Katherine. ... "One important component of shrewishness was talking "talking too much, or too loudly and publicly, or too crossly for a woman- (Dolan, "Shrews and Shrew Taming...

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