Bianca and Lucentio Get Hitched!

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This week Bianca Minola got married with a wealthy man named Lucentio! They got married after Bianca’a sister, Katherine, also got married to a man named Petruchio. The whole marriage was chaotic and unplanned. Apparently, Lucentio’s original plan to win Bianca over in a race with two other suitors by getting his best servant, Tranio, to dress up as him and beguile Bianca. To sell it, Tranio persuades a merchant from Mantua to dress up as Lucentio’s father, Vincentio to give him and Bianca his blessing. Meanwhile, Lucentio pretended to be a Latin teacher named Cambio. Eventually, Lucentio was able to win Bianca over naturally by flirting simultaneously teaching. Hopefully, he learned that love doesn’t come by deceiving others but naturally with charm and wits. They later elope without anyone except Tranio knowing. Then, everything goes wrong when the real Vincentio arrives! When he found the merchant dressed as him and Tranio dressed as Lucentio, he was furious. Unwilling to give their true identities, even though Vincentio knows them, Tranio and the merchant continue to lie. That is until Lucentio comes to save the day. He tells everyone their whole plan and how much he loves Bianca. Vincentio eventually excepts it and gives them his blessing. At the reception, everyone (Lucentio, Bianca, Hortensio, Petruchio, Katherine, and Gremio, and Vincentio) arrives wearing the most stylish clothing at the time....(continued on the next page)

The affable Bianca Minola elopes with a Lucentio from Pisa! Here are the latest details on the most perfect

match of ages to come...

By: Afif Hanafiah

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To everyone’s surprise, Hortensio

comes to the reception with a wife

of himself! Apparently, he set out to

find his own widow during all the

chaos. Almost immediately after the

reception starts, Katherine and

Hortensio’s wife start arguing about

who has the better husband while

Petruchio and Hortensio just sit

back and cheer on. After they

leave, the three newly wed husbands

immediately start a game to see

who has the more obedient wife

and the biggest shrew. Lucentio,

probably feeling cocky, decides to

bet one hundred crowns on Bianca.

Once he calls her, surprisingly,

Bianca refuses to come. Even

worse, she insists that Lucentio

come to her! Petruchio then calls

on Katherine and tells her to get

B i a n c a a n d t h e w i d o w .

Astonishingly, she brings them. With

that, Petruchio wins the bet and

Baptista also adds twenty thousand

crowns to it for taming her.

Lucentio complains to Bianca about

losing one hundred crowns. She

replies by saying, “The more fool you

for laying my duty (Shakespeare 5. 2.

139)”. After that, Petruchio tells

Katherine to lecture them about

their disrespectful and insolent

behavior. She lectures both of them

one by one about respect and how

women should treat their husbands

like higher beings. This proves

Petruchio’s success at taming

Katherine. Afterwards, they all

congratulate each other on their

accomplishments and presumably

live happily. Bianca and Lucentio,

seeming like the couple with the

most chemical.

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THE GANG

BIANCA AND LUCENTIO

HORTENSIO AND THE WIDOW

PETRUCHIO AND KATHERINE

TRANIO

PETRUCHIO SUCCESSFULLY TAMES KATHERINE!

Bianca and Lucentio Get Hitched(continued)

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HORTENSIO

Hortensio: “Yet if thy thoughts,

Bianca, be so humble. To cast thy

wand'ring eyes on every stale, seize

thee that list! If once I find thee

ranging, Hortensio will be quit with

thee by changing.”

(Shakespeare. 3.1. 90-95)

KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO

Petruchio: “Who knows not

where a wasp does wear his sting?

In his tail.”

Katherine: “In his tongue.”

Petruchio: “Whose tongue?”

Katherine: “Yours, if you talk of

tales. And so farewell.”

(Shakespeare. 2.1. 225-230)

LUCENTIO AND BIANC A

Bianca (to Lucentio):“Now

let me see if I can conster it. Hic

ibat Simois, I know you not, hic est

Sigeia tellus, I trust you not, Hic

steterat Priami, take heed he hear

us not, regia, presume not, celsa

senis, despair not.”

(Shakespeare. 3.1. 45)

One Less Lonely Girl

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THE INFAMOUS SHREW, KATHERINE M I N O L A , A N D T H E M YS T E R I O U S NEWCOMER, PETRUCHIO OF VERONA, ARE BETROTHED! HERE’S THE LATEST EXPOSÉ ON THE MOST SCANDALOUS WEDDING THIS YEAR!!

How did this happen?That is the question. Who would want to marry

Padua’s shrew? An insider spilled the beans to a

fellow reporter, “Gremio and Hortensio wanted

Bianca for themselves, but Katherine was standing

in the way. They needed to find a suitor for a

nefarious Katherine. It was a coincidence that

Petruchio was on his way visiting his old friend

(Hortensio) after the death of his father. Here is

what our reporter got when inside the Minola

Household:

Disguises, DisguisesOn an inside job, we had one of our junior

reporters inside the Minola household on the day

of the wedding. Our junior reporter informed us

what he heard behind a tree in the garden. He saw

Bianca Minola, Katherine’s younger sister, with two

men. One holding a lute, and the other holding a

book. “The older man with the lute looked slightly

infuriated,” said our reporter, “And the other, with

the book was rather smitten with the younger

Minola sibling. In fact, I think she reciprocated

those feelings.”

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Petruchio: “Who knows not

where a wasp does wear his

sting? In his tail.”

Katherine: “In his tongue.”

Petruchio: “Whose Tongue?”

Katherine: “Yours, if you talk of

tales. And so farewell.”