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I do not think that Will would have sold many tickets had he presented this play as a lecture.If you are really interested in this subject, you need to do more homework about the role of women in history. I have seen this play interperated as an obvious activist denouncement of domestic violence and it does work that way - as a tragedy - but it only works because the context has been manipulated. Certainly, one can take "Shrew" as a microsom of historical misogyny, but that is missing the point.
I think it helps to first of all read the play as if Kate and Petruchio are real people rather than symbols. They have a lot more than temper in common. After you have read the play without considering gender sterotypes, then you can go back and put it into context.
Posted by Lillith on April 12, 1997 at 07:15:53
In Reply to "Critical analysis of Love in Taming Of the Shrew" posted by Trent on April 09, 1997 at 08:49:02
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