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Cambridge Cambridge University Taming Of The Shrew
2,014 wordsA recurrent theme In Shakespeare's plays is the idea that things are not always what they seem. The Taming of the Shrew shows a good example of this theme. In this play we find many discrepancies between what seems to be and what is. The main theme of this play is knowing what a person is really like is more important than how they appear to be. This is shown by Petruchio's relationship with Katherine; the changing roles of Tranio, Lucentio, and Hortensio; and the true characters of Bianca and K...
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Love And Marriage Taming Of The Shrew
1,120 wordsAs a comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, deals with a lot of very real issues. It speaks of the winners and losers on the marriage market, and asks us many serious moral questions. Shakespeare presents us with two main views on love and marriage - male dominance, and money - the dowry for marriage and wealth as a measurement of partner suitability. For the age in which it was written, it is an accurate depiction of love, life and marriage, but nowadays, such actions as to ta...
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Taming Of The Shrew Male Domination
1,075 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, deals with marriage. The ideas explored are primarily shown through the characters of Petruchio and Katharina. We are introduced to the trials and tribulation's which present themselves in their everyday lives. The characters bring up a traditional concept of male domination. Through the play we see the need for domination through Petruchio, and the methods he uses to dominate. While these ideas of male domination have remained a constant througho...
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Taming Of The Shrew Broadway Musical
1,610 wordsChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate is successful in many aspects as an appropriation of the Shakespearian play The Taming of the Shrew. These include: the transmission of Kiss Me Kate from the live Broadway musical to the film version; and the clear portrayal of th...
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Plan Of Action Sun Moon
953 wordsAll of the myths are basically structured the same. They all start of with a problem, lead into a plan of action, and result in a positive outcome. In the myth "Taming of the Sun", Maui is upset that the sun doesnt shine for very long each day "life was very difficult because the sun god traveled quickly across the sky and made each day much too short" (361). This is the problem. In "Raven and the Sources of Light" the problem is that everybody lives in eternal darkness, "all living creatures we...
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The Taming Of Shrew William Shakespeare
1,713 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare In my essay I will discuss the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare in the frames of the ideas of feminism and the chances for womens self-affirmation in the age of William Shakespeare and our contemporary world. For this purpose I will disclose the symbolic meaning of the relationships between Katherina and Pertuchio, their progress and the self-expression of the main characters throughout the play. I will argue the vice and virtue of...
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York New York Don Pedro
2,243 wordsShakespeare's Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays Shakespeare uses similar comic elements to effect similar outcomes in his works. Many of his plays utilize trickery and disguise to accomplish similar endings. Trickery plays a major role in The Merchant of Venice and drives most of the action, while mistaken identity, specifically Portia's disguise as the learned attorneys representative, plays a major role in the resolution of the play. The first instance of trickery in the play is Bassan...
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Taming Of The Shrew Aggressive Nature
2,026 wordsTo Tame A Shrew In Shakespeare s Taming of the Shrew, one topic that has been debated, interpreted, discussed, reinterpreted and adapted into different forms has been the character of Katharina, the shrew, and whether she was tamed, liberated, or just a good enough actress to make Everyone think she was in fact, tamed. In this essay, I will present arguments for and against each of these points, as well as discuss one television adaptation of Taming of the Shrew that presents Katharina not as th...
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Taming Of The Shrew Aggressive Nature
2,003 wordsTo Tame A Shrew In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, one topic that has been debated, interpreted, discussed, reinterpreted and adapted into different forms has been the character of Katharina, the shrew, and whether she was tamed, liberated, or just a good enough actress to make Everyone think she was in fact, tamed. In this essay, I will present arguments for and against each of these points, as well as discuss one television adaptation of Taming of the Shrew that presents Katharina not as th...
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Taming Of The Shrew End Of The Play
1,700 wordsDespite the fact that Shakespeare is mostly known for its tragedian playwrights, yet, in The Taming Of The Shrew, he once again proves that he is capable to write anything even comedy. The Taming Of The Shrew is a play within a play. However, the play takes place towards the end of the 16 th century. Most of the comedy scenes are shifted from the city to the country and back to the city. Therefore, most of the scenes took place in the city of Padua, Italy. Christopher Sly is a drunken tinker who...
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Taming Of The Shrew End Of The Play
1,527 wordsThe Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare is an introduction in the ever present battle of women to be loving and caring wives, while at the same time holding on to our independence. Its plot is derived from the popular war of the sexes theme in which males and females are pitted against one another for dominance in marriage. The play begins with an induction in which a drunkard, Christopher Sly, is fooled into believing he is a king and has a play performed for him. The play he watches is ...
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16 Th Century Man And Wife
2,241 wordsThe critical question of most scholars studying William Shakespeare s writing was whether he was trying to stress the importance of equality and fairness amongst women or was he, as a male raised in the 16 th century, expressing his beliefs of women as a gender. Did Shakespeare truly believe, as he had Richard in Richard III state, that the differences of male and female was as simple as the words male and female being associated with different statements? For example, the word male being associ...
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Taming Of The Shrew Domestic Violence
1,087 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, deals with marriage. The ideas explored are primarily shown through the characters of Petruchio and Katharina. We are introduced to the trials and tribulations which present themselves in their everyday lives. The characters bring up a traditional concept of male domination. Through the play we see the need for domination through Petruchio, and the methods he uses to dominate. While these ideas of male domination have remained a constant throughou...
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