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Darius 2022-07-06 18:30:40
Only independent women are eligible to be "shrews"
A wealthy girl named Catherine, because her temper is so irritable that no one wants to marry her, and a man promises that he will not marry her even if he gives him a dowry of a mountain of gold. Catherine is indeed like a little lion, she will intimidate her sister Bianka's suitors, retort at her...
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Rosella 2022-07-06 19:38:42
Watching Notes: If you ask me if I am not happy, I will say that I am disgusted and frightened
1. "Catherina is a woman full of anger, too much anger at life, her father, and the whole world." So she is called a shrew, but the word shrew is undoubtedly invented by men. Catherine is a slow-moving item, and her sister is a best-selling item. There is no way to view the objectification of women...
Michael York
Performing Experience
The Taming of The Shrew quotes
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Baptista: [Petruchio is chasing Katherina across a tiled rooftop] Signior Petruchio?
[Petruchio stops with one foot in the air and laughs]
Baptista: How speed you with your wooing?
Petruchio: How but well, sir, how but well? It were impossible I should speed amiss!
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Katherina: [Petruchio has addressed Vincentio as a young woman and indicated Katherina should do likewise] Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, wither away or where is thy abode? Oh, happy the parents of so fair a child... happier the man whom favorable stars will allot for his lovely bedfellow.
[she turns to go]
Petruchio: Why, how now, Kate,I hope thou art not mad. This a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered and not a maiden as thou sayest he is.
Katherina: [turns back, still in the spirit of the game] Oh, pardon, old father, for my mistaking eyes that have been so bedazzled by the...
[she looks at Petruchio for confirmation]
Katherina: sun?
[he nods yes]
Katherina: that everything I see is green and young.
