The History Of European Theatre The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’
Episode 133:
The complications with dating the play and it’s relationship with a similar Elizabethan play
The sources for the play
A short summary of the play
The Christopher Sly framing device
Switching of roles in the play
The disguise motif
The motivations of the leading characters
The implication of the falconry images in the play
The Elizabethan idea of a proper wife and correct behaviour
Similarities with Elizabethan ‘wife taming’ ballads
The play as an inheritor of Roman comedy
The protagonists as stock characters
Katherine’s imbalance of the humours
Are Petruchio and Katherine a matched couple?
Do the three marriages resolve the play?
Does the play make a serious point about gender relationships in Elizabethan England?
The ‘difficult’ final speech by Katherine
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