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Lucas Baines British Literature Mrs. Dean 23 April 2018 Compare and Contrast Kate and Bianca William Shakespeare is a well-known English playwright and poet who has written many different plays and sonnets. He was considered a celebrity in his time because of the plays that he wrote and directed when they were performed in The Globe. He wrote comedies, tragedies, and histories. Comedies were plays that ended with two characters getting married. Tragedies were plays where the main character gets killed. Histories told stories about the lives of kings and other famous people. His work is still very well-known in today’s society because it is still being taught in schools even though Shakespeare has been dead for a long time. He also influenced …show more content…

This play is not one of Shakespeare’s famous plays that everyone has heard of but it is an interesting play to read. In “The Taming of The Shrew” there is a lot of stuff that goes on throughout the whole play. The characters dress up and pretend to be other characters in the play. This makes it confusing to follow along with the play while the reader reads it, but that is what makes it so intriguing to read. They also manipulate people and change the way they act in this play. Shakespeare uses this play so people get the idea that things are not always what they seem. This play is one of Shakespeare’s better plays because it is different than others. This is because it has a play within the plot of it. This play starts off with an induction where a drunken beggar named Christopher Sly is tricked by a lord into making him think that he is a wealthy nobleman who has been in insanity for the past fifteen years. He then introduces him to his “wife” who is actually the lord’s servant dressed up as a woman. A group of actors visit the lord’s house to act out a play for them. This play, “The Taming of The Shrew”, is presented to Sly and is the same play that makes up the main story for the …show more content…

Kate and Bianca both cause the main contrast in the play because they are nothing alike and they fight over their father’s attention throughout the whole play. The two girls end up getting married in the play. Not only do they both get married, but their marriages change both of them and make them two different people than they were before they were married at the beginning of the play. Petruchio married Kate and said he would make her into an ideal wife. He did this by being cruel to Kate and forcing her to obey him and not giving her any choices about anything. She eventually became an ideal wife to Petruchio because she couldn’t take the suffering any longer. At Bianca’s wedding celebration at the end of the play, Kate gives a huge speech about how she has changed her ways and learned to obey her husband. Then she goes on to talk about how all women need to learn to obey and serve their husbands. Bianca marries Lucentio and becomes a disobedient wife to him. She becomes the actual shrew at the end of the play because she refuses to come to Lucentio when he calls her into the room. Both Bianca and Kate are manipulated at the end of the play and change their ways because of their

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