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Taming Of The Shrew

Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew was written well over four hundred years ago and is still able to cause critical analysis from all who read the comedy. The play is based upon the idea of people using deception, or disguises, to get what one wants out of life. Each character is important to the plot but none as important as Katherina Minola. Katherina, or Kate, is “the Shrew” that gives meaning to the play. Her presence begins in a rather negative tone but by the end of the play the reader feel that Kate has outwitted and outplayed all the other characters involved. Her final monologue, the longest one of the entire play, has been analyzed and debated by scholars for centuries and still envelops criticism to this day.
Kate is quickly shown to the audience to be a shrewish, unmanageable and headstrong female. She speaks her mind, which in Elizabethan England is uncommon for women. Her husband, Petruccio was to teach her a lesson and in so doing this Kate begins to......


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