Katherine

KATHERINE – TAMING OF THE SHREW By Olivia Inwood __SUMMARY:__ Katherine is introduced initially in Shakespeare’s drama, as the “shrew”, reflective of the play’s title. She is the daughter of the wealthy Baptisa, as well as the elder sister to Bianca. Katherine has a reputation of being violent, rude and sharp-tongued to most people who even attempt to speak to her. In contrast to her sweet sister Bianca, Katherine is not wanted by suitors, unless it is an attempt to get to her sister. Therefore when Petruchio asks Baptisa for Katherine’s hand in marriage, Bianca’s suitors are extremely pleased. However Petruchio must first learn to “tame” Katherine (or Kate as he now calls her). By depriving her of food and rest, she must slowly succumb to Petruchio’s orders, if anything just so she can be restored with these basic necessities. After this, Petruchio then bets with Lucentio and Baptisa that he can order Katherine to do anything he commands (more than Lucentio’s wife Bianca). At first no one believes Petruchio but nonetheless he proves that he has tamed ‘the shrew’. The play ends with Katherine’s speech, reflecting her transformation of character from a shrew, to a submissive wife.

__ Quotes reflecting the characterisation of Katherine from Taming of the Shrew: __ // (In italics I’ve written my commentaries about the dialogue; in red I’ve located words that specifically refer to Katherine’s personality e.g. shrew, devil etc) // // If I have skipped some scenes in the play, this is because Katherine is either not directly or not mentioned at all in the dialogue. // // Sorry, if the font is a bit weird: I originally wrote this on microsoft word then I pasted it onto this document. // //Katherine’s ‘shrew-like’ personality is expressed by others in such dialogue as : //
 * Act I Scene I **
 * Hortensio.** From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!

//Tranio’s advice to Bianca’s suitors, stating that the undesirable Katherine must be married before Bianca: // I pray, awake, sir. If you love the maid, Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands: Her elder sister is so curst and shrewd That, till the father rid his hands of her, Master, your love must live a maid at home; And therefore has he closely mew'd her up, Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.
 * Tranio.** Nay, then 'tis time to stir him from his trance.

//An example of Katherine’s violence and jealously towards her sister: // Nay, then you jest; and now I well perceive You have but jested with me all this while. I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands. //Baptisa now speaks to Katherine. Note: dame can be used as an offensive for a woman. // Bianca, stand aside- poor girl! she weeps. //[He unbinds her] // Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her. For shame, thou hilding of a devilish spirit , Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee? When did she cross thee with a bitter word? //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Another example of Katherine’s jealousy towards her sister: //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act II Scene I **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Bianca. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Is it for him you do envy me so?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">[Strikes her] //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">If that be jest, then an the rest was so.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Baptista Minola. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Why, how now, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">dame <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">! Whence grows this insolence?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherine: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> Till I can find occasion of revenge

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">A conversation about Katherine, after she is tutored; this again shows her aggressive and violent behaviour. Nonetheless, this makes Petruchio more determined to have her as his wife: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I did but tell her she mistook her frets, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">When, with a most <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">impatient devilish spirit, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">'Frets, call you these?' quoth she 'I'll fume with them.' <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And with that word <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">she struck me on the head, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And through the instrument my pate made way; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And there I stood amazed for a while, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">As on a pillory, looking through the lute, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">While she did call me rascal fiddler <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">As she had studied to misuse me so.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Hortensio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I love her ten times more than e'er I did. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">O, how I long to have some chat with her!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Now, by the world, it is <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">a lusty wench <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">;

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio first speaks to Katherine: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And bonny Kate, and sometimes <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Kate the curst <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">But, Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom, //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This part of the dialogue shows Katherine’s initial resistance to Petruchio however it also shows Petruchio’s determination and chauvinist attitude: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And bring you from a <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">wild Kate <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> to a Kate <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Conformable as other household Kates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">You lie, in faith, for you are call'd plain Kate,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Asses are made to bear, and so are you.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Women are made to bear, and so are you <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">you are too angry <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">If I be waspish, best <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">beware my sting <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">My remedy is then to pluck it out.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> For I am he am born to tame you, Kate,

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio does not listen to Katherine and pretends to ignore her hatred for him. Therefore he quickly arranges their wedding: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> And, to conclude, we have 'greed so well together


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This quote again is reflective of Petruchio’s determination to ‘tame’ Kate: //
 * Petruchio ** . Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself;If she and I be pleas'd, what's that to you?'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,That she shall still be curst in company.I tell you 'tis incredible to believe.How much she loves me- O, the kindest Kate!She hung about my neck, and kiss on kissShe vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,That in a twink she won me to her love.O, you are novices! 'Tis a world to see,How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew .Give me thy hand, Kate; I will unto Venice,To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;I will be sure my Katherine shall be fine.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Quote about disguise: //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This is not really related to Katherine’s personality however depicts the theme of disguise in The Taming of the Shrew: // 'hic est' son unto Vincentio of Pisa- 'Sigeia tellus' disguised thus to get your love- 'Hic steterat' and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing- 'Priami' is my man Tranio- 'regia' bearing my port- 'celsa senis' that we might beguile the old pantaloon.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act III Scene I **
 * Lucentio.** 'Hic ibat' as I told you before- 'Simois' I am Lucentio-

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Wedding Day. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine criticises both herself and Petruchio. With references to her “heart” this shows a softer side to Katherine’s usual aggressive personality. // To give my hand, oppos'd against my heart , Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure. I told you, I, he was a frantic fool, Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behaviour; And, to be noted for a merry man, He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage, Make friends invited, and proclaim the banns; Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd. Now must the world point at poor Katherine, And say 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife, If it would please him come and marry her!'
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act III Scene II **
 * Katherina.** No shame but mine; I must, forsooth, be forc'd

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Conversation after the wedding: // //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This shows the craziness of Katherine and Petruchio, as well as Petruchio’s behaviour towards the Priest at the wedding. // I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest Should ask if Katherine should be his wife, 'Ay, by gogs-wouns' quoth he, and swore so loud That, all amaz'd, the priest let fall the book; And as he stoop'd again to take it up, This mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff That down fell priest and book, and book and priest. 'Now take them up,' quoth he 'if any list.'
 * Gremio.** Why, he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.
 * Tranio.** Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.
 * Gremio.** Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool, to him!

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio tries to calm Katherine down: //

Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure. I see a woman may be made a fool If she had not a spirit to resist.
 * Petruchio.** O Kate, content thee; prithee be not angry.
 * Katherina . ** I will be angry ; what hast thou to do?
 * Gremio.** Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.
 * Katherina.** Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Bianca’s opinion of her sister: //


 * Lucentio.** Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?
 * Bianca.** That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine arrives at Petruchio’s country house. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Conversation with the servants, proving Petruchio’s control of Katherine: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she under her horse; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">thou shouldst have heard in how miry a place, how she was <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">bemoil'd, how he left her with the horse upon her, how he beat me <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">because her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt to <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">pluck him off me, how he swore, how she pray'd that never pray'd <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">before, how I cried, how the horses ran away, how her bridle was <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">burst, how I lost my crupper- with many things of worthy memory, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">which now shall die in oblivion, and thou return unexperienc'd to <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">thy grave. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">As Petruchio becomes more violent, Katherine becomes more caring: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">You whoreson villain! will you let it fall? //[Strikes him]// <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The meat was well, if you were so contented. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio’s new plan for taming Kate: // And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour. He that knows better how to tame a shrew , Now let him speak; 'tis charity to show.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act IV Scene I **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Grumio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not cross'd me, thou
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Curtis. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">By this <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">reck'ning he is more shrew than she.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet;
 * Petruchio:** This is a way to kill a wife with kindness ,

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">A conversation on Petruchio’s taming methods: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act IV Scene II **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Bianca. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The taming-school! What, is there such a place?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Tranio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Ay, mistress; and Petruchio is the master,

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio’s house // //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine reflects on her horrid situation: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">What, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">did he marry me to famish me? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Beggars that come unto my father's door <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Upon entreaty have a present alms; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">If not, elsewhere they meet with charity; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">But I, who never knew how to entreat, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Nor never needed that I should entreat, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Am starv'd for meat, giddy for lack of sleep; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">With oaths kept waking, and with brawling fed; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And that which spites me more than all these wants- <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">He does it under name of perfect love; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">As who should say, if I should sleep or eat, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">'Twere deadly sickness or else present death. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I prithee go and get me some repast; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I care not what, so it be wholesome food. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine turns violent again: // //<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">[Beats him] // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">That feed'st me with the very name of meat. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">That triumph thus <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">upon my misery <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Go, get thee gone, I say. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">More expressions of Katherine’s anger: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And speak I will <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">. I am no child, no babe <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Your betters have endur'd me <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">say my mind <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And if you cannot, best you stop your ears. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">My tongue will tell <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">the anger of my heart <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Or else my heart, concealing it, will break; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And rather than it shall, I will be free <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine expresses her sadness at what Petruchio has taken away from her: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Belike <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">you mean to make a puppet of me <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act IV Scene III **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The more my wrong, the more his spite appears.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I never saw a better fashion'd gown,

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Conversations with Baptisa about marriage etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act IV Scene IV **

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The Public Road // //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine eventually decides to take Petruchio’s word for everything. However he cruelly takes advantage of this. // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">be it moon, or sun, or what you please <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And if you please to call it a rush-candle, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Henceforth <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I vow it shall be so for me.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act IV Scene V **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Come on, a God's name; once more toward our father's.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I say it is the moon.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I know it is the moon.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Nay, then you lie; it is the blessed sun.

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Swapped identities with Tranio/Lucentio are revealed: // <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Made me exchange my state with Tranio, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">While he did bear my countenance in the town; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And happily I have arrived at the last <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Unto the wished haven of my bliss. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">What Tranio did, myself enforc'd him to; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act V Scene I **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Lucentio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Love wrought these miracles. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Bianca's love

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Also: Petruchio and Kate kiss in the middle of the street despite Katherine’s initial reluctance to.

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Others comment on Petruchio’s misfortune of having a shrew as a wife: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And now you know my meaning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Act V Scene II **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Widow. **<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Your husband, being troubled with a shrew <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">A very mean meaning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Widow. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Right, I mean you.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And I am mean, indeed, respecting you.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">To her, Kate!

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Baptista Minola. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio fights against these comments and proposes a bet: //

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Let's each one send unto his wife, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And he whose wife is most obedient, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">To come at first when he doth send for her, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Shall win the wager which we will propose. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine comes to Petruchio’s call: // //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio has won the bet: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">An awful rule, and right supremacy; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The wager thou hast won <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">; and I will add <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Another dowry to another daughter, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">For she is chang'd, as she had never been. //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Petruchio continues to order Katherine, and she follows his command: // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Off with that bauble, throw it underfoot. //<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">[KATHERINA complies] //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Well, I say no; and therefore, for assurance,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Baptista Minola. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Now, by my holidame, here comes Katherina!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherina. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">What is your sir, that you send for me?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Baptista Minola. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Now fair befall thee, good Petruchio!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio: **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Katherine, that cap of yours becomes you not:

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fragments from Katherine’s Long Speech. This represents the ultimate change in her character. She is now completely obedient to Petruchio. Sadly, despite even expressing her love for Petruchio, he still is horribly disrespectable to her e.g. He refers to her as a ‘wench’. // <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Thy husband is thy lord <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">, thy life, thy keeper, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Such duty as the subject owes the prince, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Even such a woman oweth to her husband; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And when <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">And not obedient to his honest will, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">What is she but a foul contending rebel <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">AndI am asham'd that women are so simple

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">To offer war where they should kneel for peace; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. graceless traitor to her loving lord?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Petruchio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Why, there's <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">a wench <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

//<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Katherine is now fully ‘tamed’: //


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Lucentio. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">'Tis a wonder, by your leave, <span style="color: red; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">she will be tam'd so <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">THE END[[file:Taming of the Shrew Work.docx]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">P.s. I've attached the Microsoft Word document, if anyone wants the version with a better font size. **