Taming of the Shrew

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

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Taming of the Shrew: introduction

induction 1,2, Act 1, scene 1

vocabulary : finish up 

introduction

The Taming of the Shrew

Did you read (part of) the play?

1. yes, all the assigned pages
2. I started, but it was too much/ too difficult
3. nope, sorry
4. just the induction bit..

comedy/farce:

full of slapstick comedy

flat characters

instead of happily ever after, this play focuses on what it's like to be married. 

induction 1

- in medias res; middle of a scene

read this, you have 1 minute.

What are they talking about??

1. they are comparing girls
2. they want to get drunk
3. they are comparing dogs
4. they are bragging about hunting

the Lord finds Sly, ( passed out) and, proposes a plan

what is the plan?

Sly wakes up and adresses the servants

what is Sly saying here?

Sly meets his 'wife'. 

A frame story. 

1. Where do Lucentio and Tranio arrive in the first scene, and why have they come to this town? 

2. Why will Baptista not give away Bianca at present? 

3. How does Katharina treat the suitors of Bianca?

4. What scheme does Hortensio concoct in order to marry Bianca?

Bianca's and Katherine's father

Bianca's suitor

the Shrew

the nice girl

the tamer of the shrew

Gremio

Baptiste

Katharina

Bianca

Lucentio

Hortensio

Next time

read all of act one

dicussion

sonnet 75 

sonnet 75

ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washèd it away:

Again I wrote it with a second hand,

But came the tide and made my pains his prey.

Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay 5

A mortal thing so to immortalise;

For I myself shall like to this decay,

And eke my name be wipèd out likewise.

Not so (quod I); let baser things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; 10

My verse your virtues rare shall eternise,

And in the heavens write your glorious name:

  Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,

  Our love shall live, and later life renew.

questions

1 what kind of sonnet is this?

2 How many syllables are there per line?

What is the rhyme pattern of sonnet 75?

Who is the ' I' in line 1, what is ' it' in line 2?

1. where can you find alliteration?

2. where can you find assonance?

3. where can you find personification? 

ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washèd it away:

Again I wrote it with a second hand,

But came the tide and made my pains his prey.

Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay 5

A mortal thing so to immortalise;

For I myself shall like to this decay,

And eke my name be wipèd out likewise.

Not so (quod I); let baser things devise

To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; 10

My verse your virtues rare shall eternise,

And in the heavens write your glorious name:

  Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,

  Our love shall live, and later life renew.

rewrite line 11 in modern English
' my verse your vertues rare shall eternize'

vocabulary

Finish up 33 tm 64

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