The Taming of the Shrew is a literary exploration of marital issues presented explicitly and implicitly by Shakespeare's characters. ... A woman's desirability in marriage relies on her manner, as clearly expressed in The Taming of the Shrew. ... A husband's desire to be dominant in a marriage is implicitly presented by Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew. ... A woman's duty of obedience in marriage is explicitly illustrated in The Taming of the Shrew. ... In The Taming of the Shrew, internal messages surrounding the difficulties of marriage are delivered through the...

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Shakespeare highlights the theme of marriage, in particular the role of the woman in the marriage, in The Taming of the Shrew. ... Like his other romantic comedies, The Taming of the Shrew focuses on courtship and marriage and the various roles that the man and woman play, but, unlike most of them, it devotes a great deal of attention to married life after the wedding. ... Widely reputed throughout Padua to be a shrew, Kate is foul-tempered and sharp-tongued at the start of the play. ... Already we are being shown compliance from Kate, who was regarded as a shrew with a sharp tongue. ... Liv...

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Hortensio's declaration that the "curst shrow" Katherine had been tamed is astonishing to all the audience in the final scene of The Taming of the Shrew. ... This evidence suggests her ability to impersonate the character of a tamed shrew. ... If Katherine continues to focus upon her own wants, she cannot be the tamed shrew Hortensio labels her. ... Insulting Katherine, the widow retorts, "your husband being troubled with a shrew Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe. ... If he thought she was completely tamed, he would not imagine that she is still aggressive. ...

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At first glance, The Taming of the Shrew might seem like an exception, as Katherine is presented at the outset to be extremely cross, always arguing with everyone. ... Sharp-tongued, ill-mannered, and foul-tempered, Katherine is known throughout Padua as the shrew of the town. ... Petruchio uses this deprivation as a mechanism for taming her, or forcing her into submission. ... The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. ... The film 10 Things I Hate About You provides the audience with a much less damaging view of women than d...

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Hortensio: "Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew. Lucentio: "Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so." ... These two concluding lines of Shakespeare's play, "The Taming of the Shrew", summarize each side of the question we are left to answer as the play closes; whether or not Petruchio has succeeded in taming Katharina. ... She chose to be tamed in exchange for marriage. ... Even the other characters may have the vague idea that Katharina's taming is a farce. ...

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The Taming of the Shrew is full of all kinds of interesting characters who have all kinds of interesting nuances. ... Katharina is a considered a shrew. ... Katharina's quick change in the last scene is from a shrew to June Cleaver in seemingly 5 minutes. There is no trace of the old shrew personality. ... In short, Taming of the Shrew is too bland for my taste. ...

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The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular films such as ëten things I hate about you. ... The "taming" of Katherine has been contended as being excessively cruel by many writers and critics of the modern era. ... The women in the taming of the shrew provide a clear insight into the role of women in Shakespearian society. ... The question one has to ask, is was Katherina ever a shrew, did she behave as such to manipulate her situation, or has she really been tamed? ... Katherine rebels ag...

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Same as in "The Taming of the Shrew" when Petruccio says he will tame Katherine as a falcon as well. ... Katherine, of "The Taming of the Shrew", and Beatrice, of "Much Ado About Nothing", are very similar to each other. ... In "The Taming of the Shrew" the introduction to Katharina, said by Gremio and Hortensio, tells the reader that Katherine is the shrew and she will never manage to find a husband (Shr. 1.I.54-60). ... If Shakespeare would have written "The Taming of the Shrew" later, Katherine could have been more complicated and brilliant. ... With the beginning of "The Taming of the Shre...

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In the studied text Shakespeare text the taming of the shrew one of the earliest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, audiences witness universal theme such as gender relationships, family relationships and love. ... After the marriage he sets in motion a plan to end Katherine's scornful and unpleasant nature, his aim is to tame the shrew and he is self confident enough to believe he can change her. He creates a plan to tame her much like how he would tame a falcon. ... Similarly in ten things I hate about you, the theme of disguise and deceit has been portrayal and modernized into a...

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In The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare uses a variety of different ways to put across to the reader or audience his views on marriage and relationships. ... He spends the vast majority of the play trying to "tame" Katherina, changing her into a more stereotypical woman. ... This means that two like personalities will cancel each other out, and, in this case, he will "tame" Katherina. ...

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To Be or Not To Be? Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year t...

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