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. Its heroine, Katherine, is such a strong willed and overpowering character in the beginning of the play, and when Shakespeare wrote, that was not as common. ... Tranio's job is to keep Bianca's other suitors and her father off Lucentio's scent (Macrone, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, 1990). ... She is a very complex character and it is definite that Shakespeare...

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After reading William Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet, you have a better understanding of the characters then when we are first introduced to them. ... Through language, Shakespeare presents these changes as well as foreshadowing the eventual tragedy Romeo and Juliet's death.   ...

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Morel rejected him and turned all her love towards her four children, particularly her two eldest sons, William and Paul. ... William went to London to work as a clerk, and Paul also got a job as clerk with Mr. Jordon, manufacturer of surgical appliances; William developed pneumonia and died. ... In her deep heart, she has intense love but cannot find reasonable mode to release so as to shower her total affection and hope on her sons, especially William and Paul, and hopes her sons can replace the position of her husband Walter Morel. ...

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