The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a playing period word-painting the story of a woman, Katherina Minola, and her struggles against Petruchio, the man she was forced to marry. Petruchio forces Katherina (Kate) to change from an abrasive, gloomy tempered, ill mouthed shrew into a perfect, docile, honey-tongued wife. Written between 1590 and 1594, it has claimed the form of address of one of Shakespeares earliest Comedies and also one of his most disputable works. Particularly for modern audiences, Petruchio and his methods are what have earned this play its name as a highly misogynistic text. Via abuse, public disappointment and starvation he finally attains his goal of taming Katherina.
Petruchio, a moneyed and unmarried gentlemen from Verona, wishes a wife. Katherina is incredibly ill tempered and or so childish, however her large dowry is an irresistible temptation to Petruchio and he marries her against her vicious protests; however, due to her unfavourable temperament, he soon finds everything just about her displeasing(?) and begins to tame the shrew. This taming is unconventionally achieved by (and so adequately described as) kill[ing] a wife with kindness (4, 1, 174). I tap you, husband, be not so disquiet.
/ The meat was well, if you were so contented. I tell thee, Kate, twas burnt and dried a bearing (4, 1, 139-141). As this paraphrase shows, he refuses her food and rest until she becomes the submissive and stereotypical wife he desires. This desired relationship between Petruchio and his wife Katherina, is competently compared (by Petruchio) as to those of a falcon and a falconer.
My falcon promptly is sharp and passing empty; / And till she stoop she essential not be salutary-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure. / Another way I have to man my haggard, / To make her come and cut her keepers call, (4, 1, 166-170)
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