The Taming of the Shrew Group
(Lisa, Teresa, Ashley,
Ammi)
Links to modern
productions from MIT’s Global Shakespeare site:
Link to the full version
of 10 Things I Hate About You, a high school comedy loosely modeled on The Taming
of the Shrew: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSsB51mFpqw
The Royal Shakespeare’s
page on The Taming of the Shrew, including pictures, clips, and links to
numerous productions, including the recent 2012 performance:
The Taming of the Shrew Edited by Frances E. Dolan
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Katharina: That I’ll try. -She strikes him-
Petruchio: I swear I’ll cuff you if you strike again.
Katharina: So may you lose your arms.
If you strike me, you are no gentleman,
And if no gentleman, why then no arms.
Petruchio: A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!
Katharina: What is your crest, a coxcomb?
Petruchio: A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.
Katharina: No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven.
Petruchio: Nay, come, Kate, come. You must not look so sour.
Katharina: It is my fashion when I see a crab.
Petruchio: Why, here’s no crab, and therefore look not sour.
Katharina: There is, there is.
Petruchio: Then show it me.
Katharina: Had I a glass, I would.
Petruchio: What, you mean my face?
Katharina: Well aimed of such a young one.
Petruchio: Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.
Katharina: Yet you are withered.
Petruchio: ‘Tis with cares.
Katharina: I care not.
Petruchio: Nay, hear you, Kate. In sooth, you scape not so.
Katharina: I chafe you if I tarry. Let me go.
Petruchio: No, not a whit. I find you passing gentle.
“Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen,
And now I find report a very liar,
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