Friday, December 14, 2007

Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
Taming of the Shrew
1. Love, Loyalty
2. Deception
3. Relationship of Kat and Pet
4. Parenting, Baptista and Vinetio parents
5. Taming – Pet attempts to tame kate.
TKM
1. Mockingbirds, definition of mockingbris using text
2. Loyalty – who’s loyal to who, servants and whoever
3. COutship and marriage of all couples
4. Deception – Who was deceived, biondello, merchant, sly,
5. What are objectives of baptista, petrucho, lucentio and how are they met
1. Disception- Disguise/ Lies/ Trickery
- Disguise : horten, lucen, tran
- Lies : tran, pet
- Trickery : Lord, etc. induction
2. Analyze major characters
3. Bianca’s Suitors / Lucentio – courtship, wooing, wedding ,marriage
4. Kat / Petruchio – courtship. Marriage
5. Major themes – Act 2/3/5 scene 2 – Love/ Loyalty
6. Parenting/ Family/ Child and sibling
7. Servants and Master
Deception is everywhere in the Taming of the shrew. The whole play is brought together by deception. Our first hint is in the Induction when trickey is abound. A lord comes back from hunting and finds that there is drunk sleeping outside of a tavern? The lord decides to play a cruel joke on the man and takes him back to his palace, puts him in the finest chamber, summons servants to his every becon and call, dresses him in the finest clothes and even goes as far as pretending to be a servant himself and making the page a fake wife! The lord then arrages for Sly to watch the play of the Taming of the Shrew and this is when the play starts. The entire book is weaved together with stitches of lies. Lucentio aims to woo Bianca and become her husband, and abandons his studies and becomes a fake Latin teacher to do so. Once Cambio gets in the Minola residence he tries to woo Bianca through clever Latin translations which she replys in as well. The evidence that Bianca favours Lucentio over The other suitors is obvious as Hrtensio tries a clever music lesson but she doesn’t even afford him the glimmer of hope that she gave to Lucentio. With Tranio disguised as Lucentio and sttending his classes AND talking over the marriage with Baptista. All seems to be going well, until Baptista seeks verification of the lies of riches that Tranio has listed off. Baptista seeks to meet with VIncentio, Lucentio’s father who he has heard of. Of course Lucentio is not supposed to be wooing Bianca instead of studying

The disguises that Lucetio, Hortensio, Tranio and Biondello all don allow them to move throughout the social barriers of that day. A servant is transformed into a philosopher who is transformed into a latin tutor. Bptista’s aims are to marry off both of his daughters to wealthy men, Baptista does this by refusing all male suitors off Bianca and stating that Bianca will only be married if Kate is married first. When Petruccio turns up seeking Kate, it seems to be a godsend and Baptista’s plan has worked. With kates marriage but a week away and a man who seems to be in love with her (Actually her money) all is well in the Minola Residence. The act of marriying Bianca off is not even considered as a challenge as she has 3 possible choices.



VINCENTIO
Lucentio! Oh God, he's murdered his master! Restrain him! I charge you in the Duke's name. Oh, my son, my son! Tell me, you monster, where is my son Lucentio?

TRANIO
(as LUCENTIO) Call forth an officer.

An officer enters.

Take this mad wretch to jail.—Father-in-law Baptista, will you see that he's available to appear in court?

VINCENTIO
Take me off to jail?

GREMIO
Wait, officer. He mustn't go to prison.

BAPTISTA
Be quiet, Signior Gremio. I say he shall go to prison.

GREMIO
Be careful, Signior Baptista, lest you be made the dupe in this business. I could swear this is the real Vincentio.

MERCHANT
(as VINCENTIO) Swear, if thou darest.
MERCHANT
(as VINCENTIO) Can you swear to it?