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Plot
Shakespeare's craft
Quotes
100
This person plays favorites with his offspring
Baptista
100
This person spends most of the play behaving badly in order to achieve a certain purpose
Petruchio
100
How many weddings take place during the play (on and off stage)?
Three: Kate/Petruchio, Hortensio/Widow, Bianca/Lucentio
100
What type of person does Shakespeare always include in his comedies to provide humor?
A fool (Grumio)
100
"Will you, nill you, I will marry you."
Petruchio -> Kate when they first meet
200
This person shows the greatest change from the beginning to the end of the play
Katherine
200
This person was disguised as Litio
Hortensio
200
How do Kate and Petruchio treat each other the first time they meet?
She insults him and he contradicts her and makes inappropriate jokes - they go back and forth like this for awhile - then she slaps him - then he says he'll marry her whether she likes it or not.
200
What repeated behavior of characters takes place in this play that creates comedic confusion and mix-ups?
Disguises
200
"But see, while I stood idly looking on, I found the effect of love-in-idleness... Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish..."
Lucentio -> Tranio about falling in love with Bianca
300
This person isn't as perfect as he/she pretends
Bianca
300
This person isn't introduced until Act IV, scene v.
Vincentio
300
Name three bad behaviors Petruchio has during his own wedding.
He shows up dressed like an idiot riding a donkey, he swore loudly during the ceremony, he slapped the priest, he was either drunk or drinking during the ceremony, he kissed Kate inappropriately at the altar, then he made Kate leave before the wedding feast.
300
How does Kate act like a "shrew" - in other words, how does Shakespeare show her to be unlike the typical woman in his society?
physical violence, sharp tongue (inappropriate/insulting), disobedient to her father, insists on making her own choices in life (independent not subservient), at the end she makes marriage seem like an agreement between two equals, not a hierarchy.
300
"I pray you, sir, is it your will to make a prostitute of me amongst these mates?"
Kate -> Baptista when he's discussing her need to get married before Bianca.
400
This person is Petruchio's servant
Grumio
400
These are Lucentio's two servants
Tranio ; Biondello
400
Name three people who are smacked in the face (or on the head) during the play, and by whom.
Bianca (by Kate), Hortensio (by Kate), Grumio (by Petruchio), Biondello (by Vincentio), Servant (by Petruchio), Priest (by Petruchio), Petruchio (by Kate)
400
Explain why this play seems to be very sexist (like Shakespeare's own society norms) but is actually more feminist.
Petruchio's treatment of Kate, her lack of choices, Bianca's whole character... but Kate and Petruchio's relationship in the end and her speech that shows they're equals.
400
"Carry him gently to my fairest chamber and hang it round ith all my wanton pictures; balm his foul head in warm distilled waters... and if he chance to speak, be ready straight... Say, 'What is it your honor will command?'"
Lord to servants about Christopher Sly
500
This person has two titles we've heard, but is never given an actual name by Shakespeare
Merchant/Pedant
500
This person is old and wealthy and hires Lucentio (dressed as Cambio) to tutor Bianca
Gremio
500
How many times in the play do Kate and Petruchio kiss?
Three times: once at the wedding (inappropriately at the altar); once in the street in Padua (after which she calls him "love"); once at the very end when they head off to bed.
500
In the end, what's the difference between Kate/Bianca?
Kate has accepted her marriage and truly loves her husband; Bianca is rebelling/difficult and we're not sure if their love is really deep.
500
"But do you hear, sir? Have you married my daughter without asking my good will?"
Baptista -> Lucentio