Renaissance lesson 7 : The Taming of the Shrew

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This lesson

• 10 Things I hate about you
• sonnet revision
• The Taming of the Shrew

I hate the way you talk to me,

And the way you cut your hair.

I hate the way you drive my car.

I hate it when you stare.

I hate your big dumb combat boots,

And the way you read my mind.

I hate you so much it makes me sick.

(It even makes me rhyme.)

I hate the way you’re always right.

I hate it when you lie.

I hate it when you make me laugh—

Even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it when you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call.

But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you—

not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

Is it a sonnet?
Why?

The Taming of the Shrew

• Frame story (raamvertelling: verhaal in een verhaal)
  
• 3 interwoven storylines
  
• theme: metamorphosis (change of form).
  
• Frame: The tale of Christopher Sly (a tinker = ketellapper)
  
• prank: he was drunkenly put in a nobleman's bed and was made to belief he was in fact a lord.

The Taming of the Shrew

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

The Taming of the Shrew

• a play is arranged for him = a play within a play
• = the story of the tamed shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

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Summary of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Make notes while you watch!

Bianca's and Katherine's father

Bianca's suitors

the Shrew

the nice girl

the taming of the shrew

Gremio

Baptiste

Katharina

Bianca

Lucentio

Hortensio

What kind of play is The Taming of the Shrew

1. A tragedy
2. A comedy
3. An mystery play
4. historical play

Which of the following best explains what a 'shrew' is in Shakespeare’s era?

1. a woman who complains a lot
2. a woman who is strong-willed and bad-tempered
3. a woman with a drinking problem
4. a woman who wants to have everything she desires

Why does Petruccio agree to marry Katherine?

1. For money/dowry
2. For land
3. For the estate
4. For love

Who said "That, being mad herself, she's madly mated"

1. Katherine
2. Hortensio
3. Bianca
4. Lucentio

Who said:
"If I be waspish, best beware my sting"

1. Katherine
2. Bianca
3. Baptista
4. Christopher Sly

This is how I rate doing Literature so far

110

This is how I expect I will do on my Literature Test

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QUESTIONS PAGE 37

• 1. In what way is "De getemde Feeks" not a good translation? 
• ‘Taming’ is a process, whereas ‘getemd’ is a state. The play is about the process of a shrew being made tame, not about a shrew who is tame.

• 2. In her speech, Katherine says: 'Young budding, virgin... bed-fellow!'. Do these words make her sound defeated? 
• No. Katherina is in a joking mood, and enjoys the repartee. She could have confined herself to a brief answer, but chooses to play along and put her own slant on things.

• 3. Battle of the sexes. Who are the winners and losers in this battle? 
• Possible loser: Lucentio, who finds he has married a woman (Bianca) who is not as he supposed her to be.

• Winners: perhaps Bianca, who ultimately gets exactly what she wants (although she remains a flat character, so it is hard to be sure of her true feelings).

• Petruchio is also a winner insofar as he too gets what he wants. He remains a flat character as well, though, which may suggest that Shakespeare did not intend him to be a ‘hero’ who comes out on top.

• Whether Katherina is a winner or a loser depends on how you interpret the play. However, she ends up as a well-rounded and well-liked character in a seemingly happy relationship; so it can certainly be argued that she is a winner

• 4. What is a practical joke? Did the practical joke depicted in the play work? 
• A practical joke involves a person being deceived or inconvenienced and thus induced to do something funny, or to exhibit comic bewilderment or such like, but does not involve the ‘victim’ being psychologically or physically harmed.