Kiss Me‚ Kate Another Op’nin’‚ Another Show! Kiss Me‚ Kate is not just another show. It is definitely a Broadway musical and a show that has remained an audience favorite since it’s opening in 1948. Kiss Me‚ Kate is a musical comedy with wit‚ with style‚ with humor‚ with exuberance‚ which simply aims to entertain. It’s cleverly crafted story‚ ingenious writing and unforgettable music and lyrics‚ make for a rich and fascinating musical for all ages. The eternal tug-of-war between the sexes is perfectly
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Katherina may be a shrew‚ but Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew does not truly show a study of how a selfish‚ spoilt individual is made to conform to society’s expectations‚ or be tamed into a ‘proper’ woman. At the end of the play‚ Katherina is not‚ necessarily‚ tamed - she just realizes what she must to do in order to get the things she wants. Two main examples of her submitting to Petruchio in order to achieve her desires are in Act 4‚ scene 5‚ (the sun versus moon scene) as well as Act 5
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As a modern audience‚ we must remember to be mindful of the society in which Shakespeare wrote The Taming of the Shrew when we analyze it. This was a time when marriages were made for the convenience of the fathers far more often than for a love already existing between the bride and groom; people often were married without having known each other for very long‚ and sometimes without ever having met. Instead‚ one hoped to find love within the marriage once it was in place‚ to learn to love one’s
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Shakespeare portrayed Bianca more positively than Kate in Taming of the Shrew. Throughout the play‚ Bianca is depicted as the ideal 16th century woman who was pure‚ quiet‚ and most importantly‚ obedient. Due to her beauty and her submissiveness‚ she is constantly surrounded by a group of suitors who want nothing more than her hand in marriage. All of the men that constantly long for Bianca’s affection‚ are repulsed by even the idea of marrying someone like Kate‚ and go so far to even refer to the man who
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The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays. It is both a witty and complex play with characters that are appealing and believable drawn from life and based on a keen understanding of human nature. One can see this in the main character of the play‚ the shrew Katherine. Critics and Shakespearean scholars have often wondered about Kate’s character. Conjectures for the reasons of Kate’s shrewd behavior as well as her tameness have puzzled scholars for ages. This essay will
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Three things that are similar Shakespeare’s play “The Taming of the Shrew” demonstrates the themes of transformation‚ social status and culture; furthermore‚ these themes are also evident in the movie “10 things I Hate about You”. This prompts readers to consider if these themes affect their lives today‚ or are just the ramblings of a long dead writer. In “The Taming of the Shrew most of the characters were changed in some sort of of way‚ which makes transformation one of the
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Palmer Mrs. Harris AP Language and Composition 23 February 2013 Taming of the Shrew Essay: In the critical essay “Role-Playing in the Taming of the Shrew”‚ author Richard Henze argues that William Shakespeare’s play‚ “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ begins as part of that jest and as a play‚ a pretense‚ within the pretense of Sly ’s role as lord” (Henze). Henze also goes on to state‚ “What Petruchio does during… the taming of Kate is like the Lord with Sly”. As evident in both the induction and play
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The Taming of the Shrew is a performance that raises a number of issues concerning appearance versus reality. The assumption that many characters in the play are persuaded to be what they are not ignores the evident fact that each character chooses the role that they are to play. The culturally constructed hierarchy of power causes the actors to perform certain roles to avoid the constricting norms in society and retain their identities. Despite the ease with which they mask their true selves‚ the
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The question is weather or not Kate was tamed in the play‚ “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. It seems that she was not tamed‚ but brainwashed‚ because the way that Petruchio tamed her involved cruel methods that were manipulative and exploitative. Kate changed because she didn’t want to be abused anymore; she was doing nothing more than putting on an act to please Petruchio. Kate was depicted as a horrid person to be around at the beginning of the play. She had done many things
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In the book Taming of the Shrew appearance versus reality was one of the main themes‚ especially between Kate the young sharp tongued shrew and Petruchio a clever fortune seeking man who is a minor image of his wife Kate. Whereas Kate is known in the town of Padua as being a mean shrew to everyone‚ her husband Petruchio however acts one way in front of everyone but acts differently to his wife Kate. For instance starving her and denning her any sleep since they got to his house from their wedding
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