The Taming Of the Shrew Do you think Kate wants to get married Yes No Dude I like just dont know Why would Kate act like a shrew which is both socially denigrating and offputting to suitors if she really wants to get married ID: 290978
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Slide1
The Taming of the Shrew
:
The Taming? Of the Shrew?Slide2
Do you think Kate wants to get married?
Yes
No
Dude, I, like, just don’t know.Slide3
Why would Kate act like a shrew, which is both socially denigrating and off-putting to suitors, if she really wants to get married?
The role of shrew challenges societal masculinity (she’s looking for a
real
man)
The role of shrew challenges traditional femininity
(chaste, silent,
and obedient)
The role of shrew is a defensive measure (vs. her father’s favoritism for Bianca and the treatment of women as objects or goods)
All of the above
None of the aboveSlide4
The problem of getting locked in a role:
See Sarah
Badel’s
Kate in the BBC film production of
Taming
the binding scene, 2.1.1-36 (pp. 36-37)
DVD: 21.58 - 26.06Slide5
What is Petruchio’s most effective “taming” method?
A) Classic brainwashing/intervention strategy
- removes her from her home, and deprives her of food & sleep
B) Treats her “illness” with contraries (
Galenic
medical theory)
-if she ”rail”
“She sings as sweetly as a nightingale” (p. 42)
- bars burned meat because he and Kate are choleric (p. 72)
C) Treats her “illness” with likes (
Paracelsian
medical theory)
- he acts shrewishly, as in beating his servants
Kate defends them (pp. 69, 71); “He kills her in her own humor” (p. 72)
D) Advocates anti-materialism
- comes in motley to their wedding
- destroys Kate’s fashionable dress, making them return home in their “honest mean habiliments” (p. 85)
E) All of the aboveSlide6
By the end of
Taming
, Kate is
A) Tamed into being the ideal woman/wife
More socialized, if not fully socialized
Savvy in the tricks of playing socially acceptable games to get what she wants
UnchangedSlide7
Kate’s final speech
Two different film versions of the concluding scene:
The one played by Sarah
Badel
(BBC)
DVD 1.56.00 – 2.06.25
The one played by Elizabeth Taylor (
Zeffirelli
)
DVD 1.55.33 – 2.00.43
Which version do you like best?
A)
Badel
B) TaylorSlide8
In Kate’s final speech is she
Deadly serious
Mostly serious
Ironic throughout
Just playing the role of good wife
MockingSlide9
In conclusion, I resubmit my sketch of the Katherine/
Petruchio
plot as follows:Slide10
Art, like life, is full of questions, and many roles.