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
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary a shrew is defined as “a bad tempered or aggressively assertive woman.” The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is about a man that is going to tame a shrewish woman. He applies different strategies throughout the play to tame her, or what he believes is taming her. Katherine is not being tamed at all because she manipulates Petruchio into getting what she wants. Katherine begins manipulating Petruchio when they first meet. She thinks if she
the Taming of the Shrew. During the 1500-1800s, marriage was one of the most important aspects of society. It was a very serious decision to make because it not only affected your life, but it also could have affected your family's. It either ruined your reputation (by marrying someone of a lower class) or supported you (by marrying someone of the same or higher class). Even though marriages in both novels were arranged by social statuses and were influenced by the husband/father, the Taming of 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 time of Shakespeare. While The Taming of The Shrew stresses masculine dominance, 10 things I hate about you focuses more on the female's ability to have control over the male. In The Taming of The Shrew, Katherine changes to suit the preference of Petruchio. In the movie, the character kat changes her negative attitude but at the same time, Patrick Verona meets her halfway in changing for her as well. While the relationship in The Taming of the Shrew is seemingly one sided, the relationship
The Taming of the Shrew is a 17th century look at gender roles and relationships. Two sisters, two totally different personalities, yet both wanting to be loved. Bianca is the baby and all she wants is a relationship, for the 17th century she is the biggest boy crazy teen. Katherine a strong-willed and out-spoken young woman, she knows what she wants and she knows that nothing will get in her way from getting it. Both women looking for love, only Bianca is a little more aware of that fact than Katherine
The Taming of the Shrew, a character that experiences an alternation during the course of the play is Kate, which whom is the shrew of the Shakespearean play. Kate’s characterization of a shrew is due to her not falling into the categorization of women during the medieval time period. Kate does not fit the criteria of a medieval woman; one may characterize her as an intelligent, yet aggressive woman. This has caused her to be an outcast by society. Those of the Renaissance society view Kate in this
A woman lived a majority of her life as an unlikeable and unpleasant shrew. Over time, it appeared as though a man succeeded in his quest of taming the shrew. Kate ultimately “transformed” into a submissive wife who strived to please her husband. At a first glance, this transformation seems genuine and thus her final speech appeared to be a tribute to her husband whom she loved; however, it is clear throughout the details of the play that Shakespeare meant for the speech to be interpreted sarcastically
the same plot line as the Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew. There're many similarities, especially in characters, but there’s also some key differences. The Taming of the Shrew is written around Baptista’s daughters getting married. His youngest, Bianca faces no problems finding a suitable mate, however, Baptista demands that his eldest daughter Katherine gets married first. Katherine runs perpendicular to Bianca in that Katherine is a shrew; presenting the problem of the story. Lucentio
“married” to her nation, and this was okay with her. In a way, Queen Elizabeth’s marriage to her nation was an example to women in this time period about how they should behave in their own marriages; totally devoted and obedient. In The Taming of the Shrew, there are two main couples in the story: Katherine and Petruchio, and Bianca and Lucentio. Because The Taming of the Shrew takes place during the time of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, Bianca and Katherine were expected to be completely obedient to