THE TAMING OF THE SHREW - Significant quotes

What Gremio thinks of Kat

‘To cart her rather! She’s too rough for me.’

Katherina’s aggression 1

‘To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool and paint your face and use you like a fool.’

Bianca’s emotional manipulation 1

‘A pretty peat! It is best put finger in the eye, and she knew why.’

Petruchio’s initial violence

‘[He wrings him by the ears.]’

Petruchio reveals that we will marry anyone with money

‘I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.’

Hortensio describing how he would not marry Kat

‘were my state far worser that it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold!’

Katherina’s vulnerability 1

‘She is your treasure, she must have a husband. I must dance barefoot in her wedding day and, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.’

Petruchio dismisses any aspect of love and refers to the marriage as a business

‘Signor Baptista, my business asketh haste,’

Petruchio revealing his next stages of his taming

‘Thus have I politicly begun my reign, and ‘tis my hope to end successfully. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty,’

Petruchio and Katherina are ‘alike’

‘where two raging fires meet together they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.’

Katherina’s violence towards Petruchio

‘She strikes him.'

Petruchio complimenting Katherina

‘For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous, but slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers.’

Katherina admiring Petruchio

‘Where did you study all this goodly speech?’

Petruchio wants to tame Katherina

‘For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates.’

Bianca being coy

‘presume not;…despair not.’

Katherina’s vulnerability 2

‘To give my hand, opposed against my heart, unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen,’

Materialism in Taming of the Shrew

‘To me she’s married, not unto my clothes.’

Katherina and Petruchio’s chaotic wedding

‘kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack’

Petruchio possessiveness

‘She is my goods, my chattels…my anything,’

Petruchio is a shew as Katherina

‘That being mad herself, she’s madly mated.’… ‘Petruchio is Kated’

Petruchio’s care towards Kate but ill-tempered violence towards his servants

‘Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily. You whoreson villain!’

Bianca not being innocent

‘See how beastly she doth court him.’

Katherina being compared to beggars

‘Beggars that come unto my father’s door upon entreaty have a present alms’

Katherina has now become a beggar

‘I prithee let me have it.’

Katherina wanting to fit in

‘This doth fit the time,’

Katherina’s forceful spirit

‘My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break,’

Katherina has finally been tamed

‘The field is won.’

Katherina no longer cares about what the world thinks of her

‘‘that cap of your becomes: Off with that bauble - throw it underfoot!’ [She obeys]’

Katherina now tamed

‘A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty’

Petruchio has finally tamed Kate

‘Now, go thy ways, thou hast tamed a curst shrew’

Katherina being obedient

‘Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign, one that cares for thee.’