Vocabulary
Characters
Shakespeare
100
Define the term and use it in a sentence: Yare...
What is quick, agile, lively. That squirrel sure is yare!
100
Who is the younger daughter of Baptista???
Who is Bianca
100
Sly's story in "The Taming of the Shrew" is known by the literary term ____________...
What is a framing device.
200
One who sells something or causes something to spread...
What is purveyor
200
Who's Lucentio’s main servant???
Who is Tranio
200
Who is Petruchio? What is his role in "The Taming of the Shrew"???
Petruchio is one of the main characters. He decides to marry Katherine for her money. He eventually falls in love with her and helps her change from a shrew to a good wife.
300
Lazy; careless; lax...
What is lackadaisical
300
Who is the “shrew” of the play???
Who is Katherine
300
Tell the two definitions of the word "Shrew"...
What is a small mammal, similar to a rodent...or a sharp tempered, loud, obnoxious woman.
400
Acting in a kindly manner; in the manner of an uncle...
What is avuncular
400
Who is one of the wealthiest men in Padua???
Who is Baptista
400
Name the two main servants in the play. (Petruchio's servant and Lucentio's servant)...
What is Grumio and Tranio
500
Careless, untidy...
What is slipshod
500
Who was tricked by a mischievous nobleman into thinking that he is really a lord???
Who is Christopher Sly
500
Why was "The Taming of the Shrew" so revolutionary for Shakespeare's time period in terms of how women were perceived and treated???
Shakespeare's time period did not recognize that women could think for themselves. If a wife did not obey her husband, he could, legally, beat her til she bled, and throw her into the cellar.
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