NAVIGATION:
Index of Dr. Weller's Class Material
Index of Shakespeare Material
Explain the Given Circumstances and the Action for each of the numbered passages.
PETRUCHIO
182 Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.
KATHARINA
183 Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
184 They call me Katharina that do talk of me.
PETRUCHIO
185 You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
186 And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;
187 But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom
188 Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,
189 For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,
190 Take this of me, Kate of my consolation;
191 Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,
192 Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,
193 Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,
194 Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.
KATHARINA
195 Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither
196 Remove you hence: I knew you at the first
197 You were a moveable.
KATHARINA
217 Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
PETRUCHIO
218 What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,
219 Good Kate; I am a gentleman—
KATHARINA
219 That I'll try.
She strikes him.
PETRUCHIO
220 I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
KATHARINA
221 So may you lose your arms:
222 If you strike me, you are no gentleman;
223 And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
KATHARINA
285 Call you me daughter? now, I promise you
286 You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,
287 To wish me wed to one half lunatic;
288 A mad-cup ruffian and a swearing Jack,
289 That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.
PETRUCHIO
290 Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world,
291 That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:
292 If she be curst, it is for policy,
293 For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;
294 She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;
295 For patience she will prove a second Grissel,
296 And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:
297 And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,
298 That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.
KATHARINA
299 I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.
PETRUCHIO
302 Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:
303 If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?
304 'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,
305 That she shall still be curst in company.
306 I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe
307 How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate!
308 She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss
309 She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,
310 That in a twink she won me to her love.
311 O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see,
312 How tame, when men and women are alone,
313 A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
314 Give me thy hand, Kate: I will unto Venice,
315 To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.
316 Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;
317 I will be sure my Katharina shall be fine.
Silence speaks too. What is said by Katherine's silence after line 299?
Body language also speaks. Describe Katherine's body language and its meaning when Petruchio says,
323 We will have rings and things and fine array;
324 And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday.