Vocabulary
Secondary or subordinate plots in a story
What are subplots?
The "shrew" of the play's title
Who is Katherine?
What is Petruchio seeking in Padua? (Be specific)
What is a rich wife?
Baptista's requirement for Petruchio before he'll agree to let him marry Katherine
Who is Lucentio?
A story within a story
What is a frame tale (or frame story)?
Bianca's husband (eventually)
Who is Lucentio?
The reason Hortensio becomes a music teacher
What is to be closer to Bianca?
The other suitors agree to this to encourage Petruchio to woo Katherine.
What is pay him?
He gives up on Bianca and instead marries the Widow.
Who is Hortensio?
Character's remark others onstage do not hear
What is an aside?
The "shrew-tamer" ... one of the other characters jokes that this person runs a "taming school"
Who is Petruchio?
Petruchio's appearance and conduct at the wedding
What is dressed outrageously, acting poorly, and even swearing in church and hitting a priest?
On the way to her new home, this happens to Katherine.
What is her horse trips, dropping her in the mud and then the horse falls on top of her?
The only real suitor who isn't married at the end of the play.
Who is Gremio?
Speech given by a character alone on stage, which reveals their thoughts and feelings
What is a soliloquy?
The father of Katherine and Bianca
Who is Baptista?
Three taming methods used on the "shrew"
What are reverse psychology, witholding food and preventing sleep?
What Katherine must do before she can eat.
He pretends to be his master so that his master can disguise himself as a tutor.
Who is Tranio?
When the audience knows something the characters don't know
What is dramatic irony?
The two suitors who are blocked from their lady love by the rule that Katherine must marry first
Who are Hortensio and Gremio?
Bianca's reason for being upset with her tutors
What is not allowing her to choose her lessons as she pleases?
The most obedient wife in the bet
Who is Katherine?
By the end of the play, Katherine says a wife owes her husband these three things.
What are love, beauty (fair looks) and true obedience?