Characters
Who is Bianca?
Money or land given to the groom by the bride's family
What is a dowry?
The name of Shakespeare's theater in London
What is The Globe?
"I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace, or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway when they are bound to serve, love, and obey"
Who is Katherine?
The structure of TOTS, considering it includes a play within a play
What is a frame narrative?
He pretends to be Lucentio and asks Baptista for Bianca's hand in marriage
Who is Tranio?
Persuasive speech or writing
What is rhetoric?
Shakespeare's preferred meter
What is iambic pentameter?
The wager thou hast won, and I will add unto their losses twenty thousand crowns, another dowry to another daughter, for she is changed, as she had never been.
Who is Baptista?
Grumio & Biondello often make these remarks to the audience
What are asides?
He disguises himself as a music teacher
Who is Hortensio?
A speech made by a character when they are the only one onstage, gives audience insight into their inner thoughts
What is a soliloquy?
Makes up one iambic foot
My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and, till she stoop, she must not be full gorged.
Who is Petruchio?
The city in which most of TOTS takes place
What is Padua?
He is Lucentio's father
Who is Vincentio?
Sharp-minded
What is shrewd?
Ruler of England during Shakespeare's time
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
I am no breeching scholar in the schools. I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times, but learn my lessons as I please myself.
Who is Bianca?
The number of syllables in one line of a Shakespearean sonnet
What is 10?
Lucentio & Tranio tell this character that Lucentio has murdered someone
Sport of training and hunting with a specific bird of prey
Falconry
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
I'll have them very fairly bound- All books of love, see that at any hand; And see you read no other lectures to her.
Who is Gremio?
The city Petruchio is from
What is Verona?