Taming of the Shrew Test HBL

Who is the Author?

William Shakespeare

What kind of play is this?

A comedy

Where does the play take place?

In Padua, Italy

What is the main plot?

• Baptista wants to find Kate a husband but no one wants her bc she is a shrew/ bitch

• Petruchio tries to get Kate to Marry him

What is Petruchio looking for in a woman?

• Although he has money, he wants a rich woman

What does Petruchio call Katerina?

Kate which she doesn’t like that name

What is the Subplot?

• Bianca, Katerina’s younger sister

• Lucentio sees Bianca and wants to marry her

  • so disguises himself as teacher to get in Bianca’s home and his servant acts like himself

Who is allowed into Baptista’s house to see his daughters?

Tutors are the only males allowed in the house

How does Lucentio disguise his identity to see Bianca?

• Lucentio disguises as Cambio, a poetry tutor to get in Bianca’s home

  Lucentio sends his servant, Tranio to the Univ. to attend his classes

How does Petruchio’s personality/identity change?

• He turns into the male version of Katerina

Where is Lucentio from?

Pisa, Italy

Who is Biondello?

• one of Lucentio’s servants

• He is young and in training

Who are suitors to Bianca?

Hortensio and Gremio

What is the induction to the play & what does it do?

• it is the introduction to the play

• It sets the theme of appearance vs reality

  • PPL aren’t who they seem to be

  • The widow is not kind & Bianca turned out to be a shrew too

What do the Lords do in the induction?

• they are trying to convince Christopher Sly he was a rich lord, which was not as hard as they thought

• They told Christopher he was delusional when he denied being a rich lord

What do the Lords entertain Christopher with?

• They distract him with a play

• Give him drinks and food

What does Christopher Sly think of the play?

• Christopher is watching the play in the audience & falls asleep

• someone asks if he likes it & he does not

What is a play within a play?

• Christopher is the outer play/shell , TOS is the inner play Christopher is watching

What did Christopher Sly do?

He was a tinker

• He fixed broken pots & pans

Who are the 1st ppl we see in TOS?

• Lucentio & his servant Tranio

Who are the masters? Who are the servants?

Masters: Petruchio & Lucentio

Servants: Petruchio servant, Grumio, Lucentio’s servant, Tranio

What advice does Tranio give his master Lucentio?

What does Hortensio do to get Bianca’s home?

• he disguises himself as Licio, a music tutor

What did Bianca do with the Lute during Hortensio’s (Licio) lesson?

• She smashed the lute over his head & said she will do what she wants

Why was Grumio mad in the beginning play?

• Petruchio said to knock on the door

• He misunderstood it as Petruchio saying hit me

Who does Tranio disguises as?

• become the fake Lucentio

Who does Lucentio disguises as?

the Cambio the poetry teacher

Who does the Penitent become? Why?

Lucentio’s Father, Vincentio

• to lie to Baptista & show he has money so Tranio can get Bianca for his master

Where does Bianca show she is not as sweet?

• when she tells the tutors don’t tell me what to do

• Wen she yelling at her sister in the beginning

• When she does not come to Lucentio when he asks at the end of the book

Who are rivals throughout the play? for what?

• Hortensio(weird looking) & Gremio (old)for Bianca’s love

Why do the rivals Hortensio and Gremio agree to be friends?

• to find a husband for Kate so they can get to Bianca

When Petruchio meets Katernia, personally, what happens?

• she has a mouth on her but that tells him she isn’t stupid

• She becomes a challenge for him (word play)

• She is a good match for him intellectually

• She realizes she is very beautiful but doesn’t look that way when she is screaming at everyone

What does Petruchio know when he first meets Kate?

• there is money involved and sees she is beautiful

Does Petruchio really know Kate?

no, he does not know her true personality

Although Kate objects to the wedding, Petruchio says that’s just her, when we are alone she can’t keep her hands off me. Baptista believes who?

Petruchio, bc he is a man

Although it seems in the beginning Baptista favors Bianca more, why is it ironic when the weddings get arranged?

• Baptista says to Petruchio you need to get Kate’s love and she has to agree

• But when its Bianca, Baptista picks her husband based on who had the biggest dowry

Tranio and Gremio bid for Bianca’s hand, who wins? What are the stipulations?

Tranio, only if he can get his father to meet Baptista, which will show & prove his dowry

What do Tranio & Lucentio threaten the Pentitent with to get him to act like Vincentio ?

• they tell him, the lord from your home is at war with the lord here

• If you are seen here, you will be killed

How does Petruchio show up to the wedding?

• he shows up late and is drunk

• Is dressed like a bum

• He drinks the sacred wine

• He knocks over the priest

• He carry’s on

Why does Petruchio show up the way he did to the wedding?

To tame kate

Why didnt Hortensio want Petruchio to marry Kate?

• he said she is rich, but she is a shrew

When Baptista told Petruchio to change his clothes at the wedding, what does P say?

• “she is marrying me, not my clothes”

The way P treats Kate in not letting her sleep, eat, etc… P says “I am killing her with kindness.” meaning what?

• That’s ironic bc he isn’t killing her

• He is going to pretend I’m doing it’s for her

• He is trying to kill her spiritually

When Petruchio wont let Kate eat the meat, Petruchio says?

• We are choleric, meaning bad tempered

• If we eat it, our choleric will be worse

What bird does Petruchio train Kate as?

A falcon

What caused Hortensio to give up Bianca?

• She was fliring with the Poetry tutor, Lucentio

He asks himself Why would a high class lady flirt with a low class servant

Who talks Hortensio into giving up Bianca?

Tranio says why don’t we both give her up

Who & why does Hortensio marry?

the widow bc he thinks she is kind

When does Kate finally eat?

When she thanks Petruchio for his kindness

When Petruchio wakes up Kate to go to the wedding, he says its 7am, she says its 2am, then P says okay you are arguing we are not going, which makes Kate realize what?

she begins to understand she has to stop arguing

Why is Hortensio at Petruchio’s house?

For taming lessons, he wants to tame his wife

On the way to the wedding, P says look at the moon, Kate agrees, then he says to go kiss the young girl and who is it?

Vincentio, Lucentios dad, and he says your husband/family is lucky to have to

• he makes a fool out of her

Who is the obedient wife at Bianca’s wedding?

kate & has a speech

Why does Baptista gives Petruchio a dowry?

• bc he says you gave me a new daughter

What happens to sly and everyone that has been lying?

Nothing

• Vincentio realizes his son hasn’t been killed by the servant and all is good

• Baptist’s allows the elopement of Bianca and Lucentio

• Kate doesn’t wanna kiss Petruchio but she does bc she doesn’t wanna embarrass him

There is almost a fight between Kate and the widow, why?

Bc the widow assaults Kate and says your a shrew and your husband thinks everyone is a shrew

• Kate just says that is mean, the old Kate would have punched her

Who says “ I do not woo like a babe”

• Petruchio

• Meaning he is not going to be sweet, he is going to be rough

What did Vincentio, the real one, think happened to his son?

• that the servant Tranio, killed his son, and took all the money

Does Gremio trust Tranio with all those lies? Who does?

No, but Baptista does

Who said “ I want quiet in the Match”

Baptista bc he wants Kate’s marriage to be peaceful

What servant fights with his master?

Grumio

What is a fret?

• a part of a guitar

• But also means to worry abt something

Who does Hortensio reveal his identity to?

Tranio

After Kate and Petruchio get married, when Kate wants to stay at the reception, what does Petruchio do?

• He picks Kate up and throws her on the donkey while he gets the horse

• He says she is my property

What does Petruchio call his servants when he gets home from his wedding?

Whoresun

Who does Gremio find for Bianca?

• a tutor, Lucentio-Camino

• Gremio brags he found a tutor

Who find the guy to be fake Vincentio?

Tranio