Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Curt. | Cur.
Words
171
Characters
866
Typicality
0.32 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A12016
BritDrama no.
916
Cluster
Cluster 15 — Devils, vices & grotesques
Important excerpts
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Full speech
Who is that calls so coldly? Is my master and his wife coming Grumio? Is she so hight a shrew as she's reported: Away you three inch fool, I am no beast. I prithee good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world? There's fire ready, and therefore good Grumio the news. Come, you are so full of conycatching. All ready: and therefore I pray thee news. How? Let's have't good Grumio. Here. This it's to feel a tale, not to hear a tale. Both of one horse? Why a horse. By this reckoning he more shrew than she. They are. Do you hear ho? you must meet my master to con tenance my mistress. Who knows not that? I call them forth to credit her. In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her, and rails, and swears, and rates, that she (poor soul) knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak, and sits as one new risen from a dream. Away, away, for he is coming hither.
Plot summary
Plot — The Taming of the Shrew
: GHHStSpHEMSIy is ejected from a tavern after breaking some glasses and refusing to pay for them. A lord finds him in a drunken stupor, takes him home, and plays a prank on him: he is treated as if he is himself a lord who has just woken from a dream of being a beggar. Players visit the lord and he engages them to perform for Sly. ; In the play, BaptistalMindla refuses to allow his younger daughter Bidi@a to marry any of her suitors before her elder sister Kath@filia is married. Katherina is not considered a desirable wife: she is aggressive and disobedient. The rival suitors H@HEnSio and Greiilio agree to find someone to marry Katherina. Hortensio jokingly suggests the idea to his friend PEHWEEID, only to find that Petruccio is willing to co-operate, so long as Katherina brings an adequate dowry; Hortensio and Gremio agree to pay his expenses. Baptista asks the various suitors to provide schoolmasters to instruct Bianca, and two of them see this as an opportunity to get closer access to her: Hortensio poses as Bifi6, a music master, and gets Petruccio to present him to the household; and Digentio, a new arrival in Padua, poses as Cambio, a Latin teacher, while his servant [faiio assumes his identity and presents himself to Baptista as another suitor for Bianca. Petruccio woos Katherina by insisting on her beauty and refusing to rise to her bad behaviour. Afterwards he tells her father that she has consented to marry him, and pre-empts her contradiction by claiming they have agreed that she will remain contrary in public until the wedding. On the wedding day, he arrives late and inappropriately dressed, and behaves badly at the ceremony. As soon as they are married, he insists they leave for his home, rather than celebrate with | Katherina’s family and friends. At home, he violently abuses his servants, sees to it that she neither eats nor sleeps, and finds fault with her choice of new clothing. Baptista offers Bianca to ‘Lucentio’, so long as he can produce evidence to confirm that he can offer her a better financial settlement than Gremio. Lucentio and Tranio persuade a schoolmaster from Mantua that any . Mantuan found in Padua will be executed, and allow him to pose as Lucentio’s father, WiH@@Hiid} he underwrites Lucentio’s expectations, and the marriage is agreed. Hortensio decides to marry a wealthy widow, and visits Petruccio with the news. Petruccio and Katherina set out for Padua, but Petruccio will only leave when his wife agrees with him that…