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SETTING THE STAGE FOR ACT 5• Aim: How is all resolved by Act 5? What is the denouement

& what is the moral or lesson?• Do Now: Setting the Stage for Act 5

• 3 steps to taming a shrew: Is the shrew tamed?• Deception & A Secret Wedding

• Lesson: Watching Act 5• H.W.: In preparation for our final discussion of the play

when we return from break, please write a 1 paragraph response: • What did you think of the play overall?• What did you think of the ending?• After getting to know our characters, is this a

believable or expected ending? Explain.

TAMING THE SHREWHOW IS KATE HUMBLED?

• Begs Grumio for food (he, in turn, teases her: line 19-30)• Says she is “starved for meat, giddy with lack of

sleep” (9)• Points out the irony that “he does it under the name of

perfect love” (12)• Curses them all = “Sorrow on the pack of thee, and all

the pack of you that triumph thus on my misery” (34-35)• Still hasn’t learned her lesson• Petruchio is the only one who brings her dinner = he

forces her to thank him if she wants to eat (45-50)• Even Hortensio is disturbed by this (50-51)


• Tells her that they will go to the wedding & promises to buy her a list of fine things (55-64)• BUT……How does Petruchio act with the tailor?

• Insults the style & quality = “lewd and filthy” (69)• When Kate says this is what gentlewomen (noble) wear,

he says, “When you are gentle, you shall have one too.”(75)

• Kate says, “My tongue will tell you the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break…I will be free to the utter most, as I please.” (81-85) = Still will do what she wants

• “I like the cap, and I will have it, or I will have none.” (89-90)

• She will have none then• Why does he do this? Does he have a deeper purpose?


• Purpose = “Our purposes shall be proud, our garments poor, for ‘tis the mind that makes the body rich.” (175-180)

• What test does he give Kate with the time? • “It shall be seven ere I go to horse. Look what I speak or

do or think to do, You are still crossing it…” (4.4.199-200)

• “Ever more crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed (4.5.11)

• Kate learns her lesson• “Be it…what you please…Henceforth I vow it shall be for

me.” (15-17)• Hortensio: “The field is won.” (26)

• What two tests does Petruchio give Kate on the road that she passes?

SETTING UP THE RESOLUTION THINGS BEGIN TO UNRAVEL OR BE RESOLVED

• On pg.185, what does the little servant Biondello tell Lucentio is al arranged for him and Bianca to do?

• The meeting with Baptista is just a distraction• “Baptista is safe, talking with a deceitful father of a

deceiving son.” (4.4.83-84)• Busied with “counterfeit assurances” (93)• Look at the language Shakespeare uses: what does it

suggest about Tranio & Lucentio’s characters?• When Petruchio & Kate meet the real Vincentio,

Petruchio tells him that his son is getting married to Kate’s sister (4.5.65-70)