Analysis Of The Shakespeare 's ' Taming Of The Shrew '

The universal nature of the themes in The Taming of the Shrew,  beg analysis and social critique. This comedic farce, by William Shakespeare, creates an elegant depiction of a modern life and romantic love with all of its masks and pretensions. It is easy to assume the perspective of a psychotherapist while witnessing the drama of Katherine and Petruchio’s love affair unfolding. Concepts like “emotional repression” and “therapeutic catharsis” neatly fit the “taming” scenario. In fact, this play offers many new insights into what it takes to create an enduring, viable marriage—if one understands it from a very contemporary, psychotherapeutic or

Comparing Shakespeare’s Katharina, of The Taming of the Shrew and Beatrice, of Much Ado About Nothing

This article delves into the different aspects of Shakespeare’s play “the taming of the shrew”. It summarizes how Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, “tames” Katherina, the shrew. Petruchio uses reverse psychology until Katherina becomes an obedient and compliant wife. While that is going on, there is also a competition between the suitors of Katherina’s more desirable sister, Bianca. Also, the article details the many adaptations of the play such as film, opera, ballet, and radio. One of the many themes it mentions, a major one is that money has an amazing amount of power as well as gender politics. The amount of information in this article is astonishing however the source is not very trustworthy. Anyone using this article must be careful

Shakespeare’s drama “The Taming of the Shrew” is set in the Elizabethan era, and marriage and courtship was very different than how it is in the present. Back then it was the parents who picked suitors for their daughters. This choice would be final for the daughters but often women rebelled against the decision as they wanted to choose their own suitors. “Romeo and Juliet” is an example of this. In our “Taming of the Shrew” this is no different as Baptista Minola chooses the suitors in which marry his daughters.

There was an abundance use of the comedic device, family drama, in The Taming of the Shrew. Katherine has been searching for a man that she is flattered by, but nobody wants to marry her. Her younger sister, Bianca,

Marriage in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew At the time Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew the idealistics

The only way to seize Katherina, the sharp-tongued opinionated shrew was to change her attitude. Throughout the play, men treated women as possessions rather than partners and did not take into account their personalities. The concept of marriage in Taming of the Shrew was based

Associate Professor of English, Amy L. Smith in her article, “Performing marriage with a difference: wooing, wedding, and bedding in The Taming of the Shrew (Fall/Winter 2002-2003), claims that the marriages shown in the play do not focus on gender hierarchies, gender-based inequalities, and expectations of social convention that are dictated by the male dominant culture; instead , they escape from them without eschewing gender altogether. To support her argument, Smith does the following: first, she describes marriage as a unique set of sexual, parental and gender negotiations in a historically patriarchal culture; second, she describes marriage as a performance of dominance and submission that shapes, controls and challenges the marriage

Since the 16th century, thoughts about husband and wife’s roles have changed. In the play, The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare makes the characters have different thoughts on the roles of a wife or husband. Some characters follow the role that Shakespeare displays is correct, while some characters thoughts on marriage roles are different. Katherine plays her role as an obedient wife towards the end of the play and is tamed. Examples of this are when she shows her obedience for Petruchio by going to him upon request during a bet, when Kate delivers the speech in the end of the play, and lastly when she begins to agree with Petruchio's wrong comment about the sun and moon showing signs of becoming tamed. The key to marriage is for the husband and wife to stick to his or her role and have to mutual respect.

In the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, it focuses on two sisters who must get married however, the oldest must get married first. Here, Shakespeare presents to the audience, Katharina Minola. Katharina is portrayed as an outspoken and stubborn woman. In the play, Kate cannot find a husband because of her aggressive personality, the men speak negatively about her and believe she is not a fit woman to marry. Although, in the play it may seem like Kate will never find a husband, she undergoes impressive change from being outspoken to a married submissive wife. Kate’s transformation reveals how a woman must lose her individuality to become married and accepted by society.

The thing about interpersonal relationships is that a person can never perceive someone’s true identity, beneath the layers and layers of masks society urges to exist. Even in The Taming of the Shrew, composed by William Shakespeare, the characters play roles for their own benefit, whether it is an opportunity to woo a lady or escape threats. Towards the end of the play, Katherine, better known as Kate, builds up a facade in order to keep herself safe from the hands of her husband, Petruchio. Although she initially fought his advances, Kate eventually realizes that “the more [her] wrong, the more [Petruchio’s] spite appears” (163). After being starved and deprived of any means of rest, Kate swallows her pride and “submits” herself to her husband.

/ Happy the parents of so fair a child! / Happier the man whom favorable stars / [Allots] thee for his lovely bedfellow” (4.5.41-45). Petruchio then calls Katherine mad for being so inaccurate, inclining her to say, “Pardon, old father, my mistaken eyes / That have been so bedazzled by the sun / That everything I look on seemeth green. / Now I perceive thou art a reverend father. / Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking” (4.5.49-53). This quotation shows us that submissive women lost their identities because of Shakespeare’s characterization of Katherine. In this example, Shakespeare uses Katherine to show how her marriage has caused her to submit to Petruchio. Though in the beginning of the play she had a resilience and assertiveness, now she submits to Petruchio and is timid. Meanwhile, Lucentio has won Bianca’s heart and has eloped with her. At Lucentio and Bianca’s wedding party, Petruchio makes a bet with Lucentio and Hortensio, who has married a widow, that his wife is the most obedient. He then sends a servant to call the wives to their husbands.

Performing Marriage with a Difference: Wooing, Wedding, and Bedding in The Taming of the Shrew Amy L. Smith Even before the recent burgeoning of performance theory, The Taming of the Shrew was of great interest to critics interested in role playing , identity, and theatricality. And because Kate's "taming" and her performative speech both take place in a play-within-a-play, Taming fostered a critical interest in the intersection between performance and gender long before the phrase"gender trouble" became commonplace. The recent debates about performance, culture, and theater sparked in part by Judith Butler suggest, however, that it is time to revisit our analysis of gender and performance in this play. Although there are a number of

I am currently reading The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, and I am on page 41. This book starts with a drunken beggar called Christopher Sly. A rich lord of the town decides to play a trick on Sly when he finds the beggar passed out after getting kicked out of a bar. The lord dresses Sly in finery and has his servants trick Sly into believing that he is a lord. Suddenly, a troupe of actors arrives to perform a comedy for the dressed up beggar. The play, which occupies the entire story, is about three suitors trying to win the hand of a beautiful girl who cannot be married before her unpleasant sister. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating.

In conclusion, this play is spooky it contains many volumes of duplicity, double-dealing , fondness, tenderness, dominance and jurisdiction. This play has multiple levels of dishonesty and manipulation. Although the play was very interesting and time consuming the play taught a lesson of patience. Patience is tolerance and restraint. Katherine had to endure patience to tolerate the intolerable demand from her father that she must be married before her sister and would not be able to choose her groom. Katherine’s groom whom she did not choose has to restrain himself from wrongful doings upon her, just like everyone else in the play has to have patience and restrain from doings of oneself and one another.