taming of the shrew act 1

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• Middelbare school
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The Taming of the Shrew

Act 1

Goals

-Understand how to read a play

-Understand plot, themes, characters, comedic devices

-understand and disuss act 1

-read parts of act 2 together

soooooo….
did ya'll read the stuff?

1. yes, of course
2. a bit, kinda
3. tried but failed
4. nope. didn't even bother

so far..?

dramatic action

theme

comedic effects

characters

setting

language 

history/context

questions

1.  Why has Lucentio come to Padua?  ( Sabtain, Ahmed, Aysegul)

2.  Of what is Baptista resolved concerning the marriage of his two daughters? ( Aysegul, Alexandra, Evelyn)

3.  What is Katherine's reputation?  Bianca's?  ( Evelyn, Yadhira, Abbas)

4.  What is Hortensio's plan to more quickly be able to win and marry Bianca? (Abbas, Yijun, Haiyl)

5.  What is Tranio's plan for Lucentio?  What metamorphosis does this involve? (Haiyl,Jad, Mashia, Nana)

ACT I, scene 2 

6.  What is Petruchio's motive in coming to Padua? (Mashia, Noer, Goda)

7.  How are Katherine's and Bianca's reputations further clarified?  What words/phrases are used to describe both women throughout the scene?  (Noer, Goda,Zee,Nana )

8. What does Petruchio's monologue (l.197-208) reveal about him? (Zee, Rohan, Anelia)

9.  What is the suitors' (Gremio and Hortensio) reaction to Lucentio joining them as rivals to Bianca? (Rohan, Anelia,Yaoyao)

10. What specific images are used to describe the wooing of Katherine? (Ahmed, Gizem, Alexandra)

11. At the end of Act I, why are Bianca's suitors friendly with one another and indebted to Petruchio?  (Sabtain, YaoYao,Gizem)

1.  Why has Lucentio come to Padua?  ( Sabtain, Ahmed, Aysegul)

2.  Of what is Baptista resolved concerning the marriage of his two daughters? ( Aysegul, Alexandra, Evelyn)

3.  What is Katherine's reputation?  Bianca's?  ( Evelyn, Yadhira, Abbas)

4.  What is Hortensio's plan to more quickly be able to win and marry Bianca? (Abbas, Yijun, Haiyl)

5.  What is Tranio's plan for Lucentio?  What metamorphosis does this involve? (Haiyl,Jad, Mashia,Nana)

1. 6.  What is Petruchio's motive in coming to Padua? (Mashia, Noer, Goda)

7.  How are Katherine's and Bianca's reputations further clarified?  What words/phrases are used to describe both women throughout the scene?  (Noer, Goda,Zee,Nana, )

8. What does Petruchio's monologue (l.197-208) reveal about him? (Zee, Rohan, Anelia)

9.  What is the suitors' (Gremio and Hortensio) reaction to Lucentio joining them as rivals to Bianca? (Rohan, Anelia,Yaoyao)

10. What specific images are used to describe the wooing of Katherine? (Ahmed, Gizem, Alexandra)

11. At the end of Act I, why are Bianca's suitors friendly with one another and indebted to Petruchio?  (Sabtain, Yaoyao,Gizem)

act 2-5

read the rest of the play for next time

read aloud, act the part!

Bianca

Katharina

Baptiste

Gremio

Petruchio

Tranio 

Hortensio

Bianca

Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself, 

To make a bondmaid and a slave of me; 

That I disdain: but for these other gawds, 

Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself, 

Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat; 

Or what you will command me will I do, 

So well I know my duty to my elders.

KATHARINA  

Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell 

Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not. 

BIANCA  

Believe me, sister, of all the men alive 

I never yet beheld that special face 

Which I could fancy more than any other. 

KATHARINA  

Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?

KATHARINA:  Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell 

Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not. 

BIANCA: Believe me, sister, of all the men alive 

I never yet beheld that special face 

Which I could fancy more than any other. 

KATHARINA  : Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?

KATHARINA  

Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell 

Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not. 

BIANCA  

Believe me, sister, of all the men alive 

I never yet beheld that special face 

Which I could fancy more than any other. 

KATHARINA  

Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?

BIANCA  

If you affect him, sister, here I swear 

I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have 

him.

I charge thee = I'll make you

dissemble = lie

to behold = see

minion = 

KATHARINA  

O then, belike, you fancy riches more: 

You will have Gremio to keep you fair. 

BIANCA  

Is it for him you do envy me so? 

Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive 

You have but jested with me all this while: 

I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands. 

KATHARINA  

If that be jest, then all the rest was so. 

Strikes her

BAPTISTA  

Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence? 

Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps. 

Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her. 

For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit, 

Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee? 

When did she cross thee with a bitter word? 

KATHARINA   Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged. 

Flies after BIANCA 

BAPTISTA  :   What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in. 

Exit BIANCA 

KATHARINA    What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see 

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; 

I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day 

And for your love to her lead apes in hell. 

Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep 

Till I can find occasion of revenge. 

Exit 

BAPTISTA  

Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?  But who comes here?

GREMIO  Good morrow, neighbour Baptista. 

BAPTISTA   Good morrow, neighbour Gremio. 

PETRUCHIO  And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous? 

BAPTISTA  I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina. 

PETRUCHIO : I am a gentleman of Verona, sir, 

That, hearing of her beauty and her wit, 

Her affability and bashful modesty, Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior, 

Am bold to show myself a forward guest Within your house, to make mine eye the witness 

Of that report which I so oft have heard. And, for an entrance to my entertainment, 

I do present you with a man of mine,   Presenting HORTENSIO 

Cunning in music and the mathematics, To instruct her fully in those sciences, 

Whereof I know she is not ignorant: Accept of him, or else you do me wrong: 

His name is Licio, born in Mantua. 

BAPTISTA   You're welcome, sir; and he, for your good sake. 

But for my daughter Katharina, this I know, She is not for your turn, the more my grief.

homework

read /watch the rest of the taming of the shrew

study vocabulary t/m 58