Character and Theme
Petruchio's motivation to marry Katherine.
What is money?!
"Heavenly harmony" or "Fiddler, forbear" is an example of what literary device?
What is alliteration?
The edict by Baptista that creates the main plot of the play.
What is that Katherine must marry before Bianca?
What is a mean, ill-tempered woman?
Kate's final speech should not be seen as an endorsement of the "taming" methods of this person.
Who is Petruchio?
Bianca's true character revealed through courtship and marriage.
What is rebellious and manipulative?
The function of the animal imagery references to Katherine throughout the play.
What is to show her wild nature?
Lucentio's plan to get close to Bianca.
What is disguise himself as the Latin tutor, Cambio?
This word, which is an anagram of forward, means a person who is hard to get along with.
What is froward?
The character that represents the failure of the old vs the young.
Who is Gremio?
The primary theme Shakespeare explores through Katherina and Petruchio’s relationship?
What are gender roles and social expectations?
The type of irony Petruchio uses when he deliberately misinterprets Kate's words.
What is verbal irony?
Petruchio's plan to tame Kate does not involve what type of abuse.
What is physical abuse?
The meaning of the word "haggard" as used in the play.
What is disheveled - unkept?
The topic of Kate's final speech.
What is the duty of a wife?
Katherine's change by the end of the play.
What is from shrewish to seeming obedient?
The modern psychological term for what Petruchio is doing when he tries to make Katherine say the moon is the sun and the sun is the moon.
What is gaslighting?
Tranio's role in Lucentio's courtship of Bianca.
What is a facilitator?
The word for Lucentio and Bianca running off to get married.
What is elopement or eloping?
Tranio's reason for helping Lucentio.
What is loyalty?
The theme that is shown through Lucentio pretending to be Cambio and Hortensio pretending to be Litio/Licio.
What is deception?
The type of irony used when the real Vincentio shows up and thinks Tranio has killed Lucentio, but the audience knows the truth.
What is dramatic irony?
Grumio's role in the play, also seen in such characters as Jar-Jar Binks or Olaf in Frozen.
What is comic-relief?
The meaning of the word "quaff" as in he quaffed the water.
What is to drink something (usually taking big gulps)?
This character is a static character, meaning they have no change throughout the play but is the one who's edict drives the action of the play.
Who is Baptista?