the taming of the shrew
TRANSCRIPT
Layla, Maria, Miranda, Yves
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Theme:
MisogynyDoes The Taming of the Shrew have a misogynous message?
What did Shakespeare mean to say?
Twoopposing views
& some scenes from the play
What do you think?Listen to the debate
Watch the playWe’ll come back to you
Maria: Shakespeare meant to say
this is the way a man should treat a woman
Shakespeare felt that
women should know their place and otherwise be
reminded of it
Shakespeare shows us
how to deal with
rebellious women
Katherina’s final speech emphasizes the social need for
wives to be obedient
Miranda: No,
Shakespeare meant the play to be ironical
This play is a comedy –
and Shakespeare is making fun of men
A tamed woman is a woman
that has been robbed of
her personality
Shakespeare’s sonnets are proof of his
love and admiration for
women
Act 2, Scene 1
P: Come, come, you wasp! I’faith you are too angry.K: If I be waspish, best aware my sting.P: My remedy is then to pluck it out.K: Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies.P: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting?In his tail. K: In his tongue.P: Whose tongue?K: Yours, if you talk of tales, and so farewell.P: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again.Good Kate I am a gentleman.K: That I’ll try. (She strikes him)P: I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again. (He holds her)K: So may you lose your arms.If you strike me, you are no gentleman,And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
Act 3, Scene 2
Kate: Do what thou canst, I will not go today!No, nor tomorrow – not till I please myself.The door is open, sir, there lies your way;You may be jugging while your boots are green.For me, I’ll not be gone till I please myself.
Petruchio: O Kate, content thee; prithee be not angry.
K: I will be angry. What hast thou to do?Father, be quiet. He shall wait until I’m ready.Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner.I see a woman may be made a foolIf she had not a spirit to resist.
P: They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command. Obey the bride, you that attend on her. Go the feast, revel and feast,Be mad and merry – or go hang yourselves.But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.I will be master of what is mine own.
Act 4, Scene 5
Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!
The moon? The sun! It is not moonlight now.
I say it is the moon that shines so bright.
I know it is the sun that shines so bright.
Now, by my mother's son - and that's myself - It shall be the moon or star or what I listOr o'ver I journey to your father's house.
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far.And be it moon or sun or what you please;And if you please to call it a rush-candle,Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
Petruchio:
Kate:
Petruchio:
Kate:
Petruchio:
Kate:
Act 4, Scene 3
Kate:Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;And speak I will: I am no child, no babe:Your betters have endured me say my mind,And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.My tongue will tell the anger of my heart.Or else my heart concealing it will break,And rather than it shall, I will be freeEven to the uttermost, as I please, in words.
Petruchio: Why, thou say’st true – it is a paltry cap.A custard coffin, a bauble, a silken pie!I love thee well in that thou lik’st it not.
Petruchio wants to
marry Kate because he sees it as a
challenge to tame her
This is how to deal with women:
Ignore their feelings, show
no respect
In her final speech, Katherina shows
she has finally understood
what is expected of her
The moment Kate is tamed is the momentshe speaks utter nonsense,
mistaking the sun for the moon,parroting her husband
Petruchio and Kate start of as equals- their first encounter is exciting and interesting
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heartOr else my heart concealing it will break”
“It’s the mind that makes the
body rich”
i.e. a woman with the right
to her own mindmakes her ‘rich’,
happy, interesting
So,what do you think?
Now, bearing in mind that
“Whatever context you try to bring to
Shakespeare’s work,he will outcontext
your context”
(David Whyte)
one of us - for the fun of it -
will have
the final say
The End