12th and Shrew
Matters of the heart are what matter to Shakespeare. He has an unconventional woman fall in love in an unconventional way in Taming of The Shrew as well as in Twelfth Night. Olivia, Katherina, Viola, and Bianca; each and every one are courted in an unconventional ways and in at least one manner are themselves unconventional. This unconventionality is popular even in contemporary literature, especially modern romance novels. In the Taming of the Shrew, Katharina is most unconventional; she is forward, loud, ill mannered, and shrewish. “Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst and shrewd and forward.” (I, ii) “Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in, I will continue that I broach'd in jest. I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife With wealth enough and young and beauteous, Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman: Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold.” (I, ii) This is Petruchio’s first introduction to Katharina. With this introduction he makes it his objective to wed Katharina, and train her to
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Approximate Word count = 1570
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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