The Taming of the Shrew: ‘No Profit Grows Where No Pleasure Is taken’
The History Of European Theatre - A podcast by Philip Rowe - Mondays
Episode 133: The complications with dating the play and it’s relationship with a similar Elizabethan playThe sources for the playA short summary of the playThe Christopher Sly framing deviceSwitching of roles in the playThe disguise motifThe motivations of the leading charactersThe implication of the falconry images in the playThe Elizabethan idea of a proper wife and correct behaviourSimilarities with Elizabethan ‘wife taming’ balladsThe play as an inheritor of Roman comedyThe protagonists as stock charactersKatherine’s imbalance of the humoursAre 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 KatherineSupport the podcast at:www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.comwww.patreon.com/thoetpwww.ko-fi.com/thoetp Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
