Blackfriars;Globe;Indoor Professional;Outdoor Professional
Speech prefix(es)
Ped. | Ped: | Peda. | Pedan.
Words
375
Characters
1851
Typicality
0.24 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A12016
BritDrama no.
916
Cluster
Cluster 21 — Old fathers & plain counsel
Important excerpts
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Full speech
God save you sir. Of Mantua. My life sir? how I pray? for that goes hard. Alas sir, it is worse for me then so, For I have bills for money by exchange From Florence and must here deliver them. I sir, in Pisa have I often been, Pisa renowned for graven Citizens. I know him not, but I have herd of him: A Merchant of incomparable wealth. O sir I do, and will repute you ever The patron of my life and liberty. I what else, and but I be deceived, Signior Baptista may remember me Near twenty years a go in Genoa. I warrant you: but sir here comes your boy, 'Twere good he were schooled. Soft son: sir by your leave, having come to Padua To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio Made me acquainted with a weighty cause Of love beteweene your daughter and himself: And for the good report I hear of you, And for the love he bears to your daughter, And she to him: to stay him not too long, I am content in a good father's care. To have him matched, and if you please to Like No worse then I upon some agreement Me shall you find ready and willing With one consent to have her so bestowed: For curious I cannot be with you Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well. What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate? He's within sir, but not to be spoken withal. Keep your hundred pounds to your self, he shall need none so long as I live. Thou liest his Father is come from Padua, and here look king out of the window. I sir so his mother says if I may believe her. Away, away mad ass, his name is Lucentio, and he is mine only son and heir to the lands of me signior Ʋ incentio. Swear if thou darest, Sir at the farthest for a week or two, But then up farther, and as far as Room, And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life, Lay hands on the villain, I believe a means to cozen some body in this City under my countenance. Help, son, help Signior Baptista.
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…