The Taming of the Shrew is one of the many plays written by the renowned dramatist William Shakespeare. The play is said to have been written between the time periods of 1590-1594 as the exact date has not been rectified. To recontextualise is to elaborate and modify the original context into a more suited perspective of the current time period. The original roles in The Taming of the Shrew portrays each of the characters to have strong personality traits that allow a very public debate over the
Many of the plays written by William Shakespeare have been adapted to films with much success. The comedies "The Taming of the Shrew" and “10 Things I Hate About You’ are good examples of this. Gender stereotypes have been around for hundreds of years. What it means to be masculine and what it means to be feminine has evolved and changed rapidly in the past several decades. In the beginning people believed that all males were the tough and strong and all females were weak, through further research
In the play, The Taming of the Shrew, by Shakespeare, men use language to strip women of their power. To take their power away, they compare women to nature. Men also treat women as if they were the opposite of men, by calling them froward, the opposite of forward, a word commonly used to describe men. Finally, men take power away from women by expecting women to obey their husbands' every word. The ideal woman, from the perspective of a man, is an educated servant with good looks, and is their puppet
How does Shakespeare exploit the comedic power of wit and wordplay in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’? It is my philosophy that wit and wordplay can be thought of as the cement that holds the building blocks of a good comedy together. Nowhere is this truer, than in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Comedic devices such as wit and wordplay are integral in capturing the audience’s attention and captivating them throughout the performance. Shakespeare exploits the power that wit and wordplay command to great effect